“To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.”

Jump Then Fall, Fearless: Platinum Edition (2009).
Song lyrics

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 24
Context: All, we see, is done by certain laws of matter, so that it becomes a question of extreme interest, what are such laws? All that can yet be said, in answer, is, that we see certain natural events proceeding in an invariable order under certain conditions, and thence infer the existence of some fundamental arrangement which, for the bringing about of these events, has a force and certainty of action similar to, but more precise and unerring than those arrangements which human society makes for its own benefit, and calls laws. It is remarkable of physical laws, that we see them operating on every kind of scale as to magnitude, with the same regularity and perseverance.

La generación FaceNoBook, Revista Alma Mater, La Habana (July 2012), p. 5

Excerpts from 2021 keynote speech on formation of 'Armenia' alliance

What Does God Want Us to Do About Russia? (1948)
Context: Every basic doctrine of Christianity is nullified to the degree that we accept the ideas and practices of atomic war: the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the inestimable value of human life, the kinship of all peoples, the duty and privilege of of sympathy and compassion and affection, the responsibility of the strong to bear the burdens of the weak, the overcoming of evil with goodness, the redemptive power of self-giving love, the supremacy of spiritual forces over material might.

Source: Experimental researches in chemistry and physics

Statement on Lopez Tonight during cast reunion http://www.lopeztonight.com/

16 October 2017
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