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- In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by…
- The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,…
- Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
- Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had…
- Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side…
- Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
- The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,…
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