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> [“To escape Thucydides’s Trap, we must be willing to think the unthinkable—and imagine the unimaginable. Avoiding Thucydides’s Trap in this case will require nothing less than bending the arc of history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-allison/to-escape-thucydides-s-trap-we-must-be-willing-to-think-the/)

[Graham Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-allison/)

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