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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes: You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
         

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.


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