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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 433
AUTHOR: James William Fulbright (1905–95)
QUOTATION: Nature—pitiless in a pitiless universe—is certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.
ATTRIBUTION: Senator J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, remarks in the Senate, February 2, 1954, Congressional Record, vol. 100, p. 1106.
SUBJECTS: Destiny