"Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements,……" — Michael Mandelbaum
"Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future."
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36 Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum has 36 quotes on this site.
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If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be…
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The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
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People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,
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In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a…
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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and…
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First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about…
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The world needs a strong America.
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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
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American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient…
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
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Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United…
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
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There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students…
— Anne Campbell
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
— Thomas Cochrane
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
— Sun Tzu
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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
— Milton Friedman
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
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