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I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Bruce

#been #believing #centuries #fact #fundamental

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#catastrophic #damnation #end #except #into

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence. ↗

— John Byng

#consequence #damages #event #i #i am

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected. ↗

— David Canary

#childlike #does #emotions #flamboyant #fun

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#chance #consider #duties #economic #functions

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#damn #die #give #i #know

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

#amended #be true #describe #descriptions #facts

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#anarchism #capitalism #freedom #freedom

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#i #i think #myself #storyteller #think

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society. ↗

— Jung Chang

#although #am #banned #been #book