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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
— Nelson Mandela
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When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.
— Hugh Latimer
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Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
— Daniel O'Connell
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
— Tertullian
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Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
— Sun Tzu
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Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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…
— George F. Kennan
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire…
— Glenn Beck
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
— Gautama Buddha
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