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• John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester.
  It is not only the living who are killed in war. -- Isaac Asimov...
• To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social estab- lishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob.
  To rebel against the scientific establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail....
• An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. -- Isaac Asimov
• Any decision-whether made by government, by a corporation, or by an individual person-must take into account future conditions more than present conditions.
• Some foolish men declare that a Creator made the world.
  The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected....
• You can no longer save your family, your tribe or nation.
  You can only save the whole world. -- Margaret Mead...
• United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world.
  Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion....