Elie Abel quotes
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“No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.”
-- Elie AbelSource : Elie Abel (1968). “The Missile Crisis”
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“Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.”
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“A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.”
-- Elie AbelSource : Elie Abel (1968). “The missile crisis”, Bantam Books
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“John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press
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“Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.”
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“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”
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Source : "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.
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“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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