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“Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.”

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Marguerite de Navarre, born on April 11, 1492, and died on December 21, 1549, was a prominent French Renaissance author. She was the sister of King Francis I of France and is known for her literary works and religious writings. more

“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”

Moments Past Girl Next Speak Morning Minutes Missing Office Weapons Plant Eight East Sat Bombs Department Fifteen Desks Asia August Atomic Bomb Tin Clerks Personnel Hiroshima East Asia

Book:Hiroshima

Source: Hiroshima

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”

World War Memories Happened Safe Weapons Bombs Hiroshima Hiroshima And Nagasaki Deterrence

Author:John Hersey

“How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.”

Important Happens Effects Events Poet Philosopher Newspapers Historian

Author:Karl Shapiro

“A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.”

Men Play House Bits Walks Stage Birth Adultery

Book:the Bourgeois Poet

Source: the Bourgeois Poet

“Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.”

Dream Turns Language Sleep Paper Gold Lawyer Files Colorful Sleep And Dream

Book:Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts

Source: Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts

Quote by Marguerite de Navarre

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