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Quote by William Ellery Channing

“A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.”

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William Ellery Channing was an American preacher and theologian, born on April 7, 1780, and died on October 2, 1842. He played a significant role in the American religious reform movement and is known for his contributions to liberal theology. more

“A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.”

“The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.”

World Want Needs Helping Fashion Disarmament

Author:Arthur Henderson

“As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.”

Firsts Steps Rights Achieve Offers Weapons Equality First Steps Forbidden Treaties Disarmament Peace Treaties

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.”

Nations Race Arms Aspect Responsible Starting Paradox Conferences Maintaining Disarmament Arms Race

Author:Arthur Henderson

“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Simple Majors Clean Good Ideas Cleaning Interfaces Unix

Author:Ken Thompson

“I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.”

Knows Men Causes Clean Careful Cleaning

Author:James Larkin

“George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.”

Littles House Texas Cleaning Dishwashers House Cleaning

Author:Barbara Bush

“The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.”

Space Sea Transformed Tides Amazing Things Departure Arrivals Most Amazing Tidy Harbour

Author:John Dyer

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