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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop…

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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…
This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of…
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's…
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the…
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility…
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for…
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with…
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia,…
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient…
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions…
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
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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We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman
Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us… — Luca Parmitano
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;… — Henry David Thoreau
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. — Theodore Levitt
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the… — Thomas Berry
In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized… — Julia Serano
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Unknown Author
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks… — Etty Hillesum
I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars… — Wally Schirra
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise. — George Whitman
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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