"For a decade or more after the Vietnam……" — James Fallows
"For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our…
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
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Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
— Danny Boyle
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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty…
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started…
— Jason Aldean
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It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than…
— Graydon Carter
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a…
— William J. Clinton
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the…
— Bella Abzug
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Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem…
— Erma Bombeck
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all…
— Greg Mortenson
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