The danger is not in trying to do too much, but in trying to do too little.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- “Peace and the Arms Race,” Nobel lecture, December 11, 1959; His own complete sentence in the official published lecture, discussing disarmament and rejecting defeatism. Not the neighboring quotations attributed to Churchill or Nansen.
- “Peace and the Arms Race,” Nobel lecture, December 11, 1959
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