• giant_smeeg@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    “Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography”

    General Sir Charles Harrington

    Just before one of the largest non-nuclear explosions was detonated.

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      1 year ago

      Not as positive, but definitely one of the quotes that gave me chills (and made more popular due to recent movie, I hope this is in the movie):

      Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

      - Robert Oppenheimer, 1965 (quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu)