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My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. ↗

— Louis Kahn

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. ↗

— Louis Kahn

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I am optimistic about the future of music. ↗

— George Crumb

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Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at "Saturday Night Live," and that is so cool. ↗

— Tina Fey

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