"We have contingency plans for war, but none…" — Theodore C. Sorensen
"We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace."
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26 Quotes by Theodore C. Sorensen
Theodore C. Sorensen has 26 quotes on this site.
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The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign.…
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Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs…
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I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
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We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger…
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We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully…
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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of…
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With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount…
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Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights…
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We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we…
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and…
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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our…
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I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy…
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies…
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not…
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The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed…
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To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of…
— Sun Tzu
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That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
— B.F. Skinner
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[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .
— Alexander Hamilton
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Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a…
— Randy Pausch
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Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted…
— Stephen Batchelor
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A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
— B.F. Skinner
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Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will…
— Dan Quayle
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from…
— Alain Badiou
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But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing,…
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