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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. ↗

#concern #essence #future #past #probing

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster. ↗

— David A. Siegel

#disaster #obamacare #taxes #would

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#began #book #came #certainly #combine

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. ↗

— Akhenaton

#cabinet #doors #lips #opened #out

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. ↗

— Tom Allen

#cut #expel #laden #led #sanctions

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important. ↗