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George F. Kennan has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never…
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
— Samuel Butler
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right…
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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old…
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Old Time the clock-setter.
— William Shakespeare
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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten…
— Sara Teasdale
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects…
— John Ruskin
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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a…
— Oscar Wilde
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Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the…
— Bob Uecker
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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I…
— Henry Twells
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Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
— Caroline Norton
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