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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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