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“It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2d8f091f16654ba9a5693e3817210c3894cffcbc5a21b26bea04e4af09fdf483
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“There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion.”
Lord Byron
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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