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- What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to…
- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
- The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility…
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- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
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- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough