"The World War II generation believed the United……" — Richard Holbrooke
"The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone."
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27 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the…
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws…
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect,…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States…
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a…
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the…
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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive…
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More Anything Anything Quotes
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,…
— Katherine Mansfield
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My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.
— Asa Butterfield
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I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself…
— Robert Goolrick
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
— Pat Conroy
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I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.
— Lesley Howarth
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I like the feeling that anything, anything, could happen.
— Unknown Author
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People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,
— Lorrie Moore
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You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.
— Patricia Duncker
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I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with…
— Nina Arianda
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I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever…
— Tennessee Williams
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't…
— Zadie Smith
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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