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Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent…

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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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Hatred is inveterate anger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. — Juvenal
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his… — Diogenes
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. — Grover Cleveland
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything — Clifford Geertz
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are… — Ernest Dimnet
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And… — John Dryden
Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts. — Robert T. Bakker

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