"It is worth starting with visions, though, because……" — John Lewis Gaddis
"It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail."
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9 Quotes by John Lewis Gaddis
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I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against…
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Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
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Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
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The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than…
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The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
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Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
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George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since…
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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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