Quotes with portent

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• Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)

  Bernard M. Baruch
  American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

  Agnes de Mille
  American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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• My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.

  Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946

  Bernard M. Baruch
  American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• destruction
• ourselves
• sinister
• citizens
• between
• choice

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