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‘Poor John,’ she observed, putting down the book and analysing him. ‘Loyalty without faith. It’s very hard for you.’ She said this with total dispassion as if she had identified a social evil. The kiss was like a betrayal of her standards.
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“On the day in April 1933 when he decided to flee from Berlin to Vienna, the train he took was essentially empty. One day later, the same train was overcrowded and stopped at the border, and everyone on it was interrogated. Szilard later related the impact this had on his thinking: “This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don’t have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier than most people.”
― Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
― Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
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