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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of…
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This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of…
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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's…
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the…
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Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility…
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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for…
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Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with…
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The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia,…
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It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient…
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There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions…
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War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
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A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable…
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to…
— Alice Childress
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[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations…
— Roger Bacon
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
— William Safire
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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the…
— Peter Canisius
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice…
— Emma Goldman
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It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
— John Calvin
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At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed…
— Karl Mannheim
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We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time…
— Thomas McKean
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