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“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and evenultimately, God willing, one daythat you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to mens eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
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