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1 " Oppenheimer was lamenting the subservience of science to innate human cruelty in an address to the American Philosophical Society: “We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world ... a thing that by all the standards of the world we grew up in is an evil thing. And by so doing ... we have raised again the question of whether science is good for man.” This public admission of personal despair at the moral collapse of the modern world’s leading intellectual enterprise could not be more nakedly penitent. "
― Algis Valiunas
2 " Trust that in doing so you will be on your path and the directions will recalculate themselves—just like it does when you key in an address in your satellite navigation or GPRS and then start driving your car. Without moving at all, it can’t tell you where to go, so act you must. The path is lit with the first step. "
― Malti Bhojwani , Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
3 " In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay "
― , All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
4 " So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. "
― Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
5 " One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. "