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The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

Henry A. Kissinger

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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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