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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography"

General Sir Charles Harrington

Just before one of the largest non-nuclear explosions was detonated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not as positive, but definitely one of the quotes that gave me chills (and made more popular due to recent movie, I hope this is in the movie):

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

- Robert Oppenheimer, 1965 (quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu)