The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White
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- Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
- The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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