The Atmosphere Of Our Time Is Fast

My Group, The Lawyers Committee On Nuclear Policy, Was One Of The Principle Organizers. So, There Was This Campaign To Support The United Nations General Assembly In Asking The International Court Of Justice For An Advisory Opinion On The Legality Of Threat Or Use Of Nuclear Weapons.

Following World War Ii, The U.s. Was The Architect Of The Un System, And The World Financial System, And The Human Rights Declaration, And Of Course The United Nations Is Based Here In New York City. But, Unfortunately, Especially In The Last Decade, The U.s. Really Has Been Turning Its Back On International Agreements And The Set Of Agencies And Procedures That They Create As A Means For Governing The World.

The Lure Of The Distant And The Difficult Is Deceptive. The Great Opportunity Is Where You Are.

The Fuel In The Earth Will Be Exhausted In A Thousand Or More Years, And Its Mineral Wealth, But Man Will Find Substitutes For These In The Winds, The Waves, The Sun's Heat, And So Forth.

Science Is A Capital Or Fund Perpetually Reinvested; It Accumulates, Rolls Up, Is Carried Forward By Every New Man. Every Man Of Science Has All The Science Before Him To Go Upon, To Set Himself Up In Business With. What An Enormous Sum Darwin Availed Himself Of And Reinvested! Not So In Literature; To Every Poet, To Every Artist, It Is Still The First Day Of Creation, So Far As The Essentials Of His Task Are Concerned. Literature Is Not So Much A Fund To Be Reinvested As It Is A Crop To Be Ever New-grown.