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Bombing and Bombs Quotes

Bombing and Bombs Quotes

1. 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

2. There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. - James Baldwin

3. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. - Lyndon B. Johnson

4. Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. - Nikita Khrushchev

5. If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the math of a warring world, or to the math of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

6. If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this? - Werner Heisenberg

7. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. - George Orwell

8. Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists. - Muhammad Ali

9. Unlike some of our neighbours, India does not believe in dirty bombs. We take non-proliferation very seriously. - Nirmala Sitharaman

10. The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine. - Werner Heisenberg

11. My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin. - Rafael Nadal

12. I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head. - Novak Djokovic

13. I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great. - Bruce Willis

14. We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 

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