"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
-Herbert Hoover
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
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"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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