We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.


Sam Nunn

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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These are examples of excellent cooperation and working relationships between the divisions.
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We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.
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We are definitely stepping up the level in our response.
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SAM KINISON
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON
Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON
I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN