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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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