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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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LAWRENCE OATES We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly,...
BROTHER LAWRENCE To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann...
LAWRENCE STERNE I value my integrity. Which is why it has a price.
MARK LAWRENCE New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cas...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ...
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Tr...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ...
LAWRENCE BENDER Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady aroun...
LAWRENCE WELK I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
LAWRENCE WELK Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE