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The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. ↗


— Robert D. Kaplan


#correspondent #countries #foreign #history #i

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. ↗


— Anish Kapoor


#history #life #my life #neurosis #story

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history. ↗


— Alex Kapranos


#every #history #pivotal #point #surely

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer. ↗


— Marcy Kaptur


#appliances #become #becoming #clothing #country

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. ↗


— Ryszard Kapuscinski


#ashamed #cold #cold war #contemporary #contemporary history

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. ↗


— Charlie Kaufman


#anything #approach #beings #completely #controlled

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗


— Irving R. Kaufman


#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. ↗


— Irving R. Kaufman


#about #ever #expensive #finding #happened

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ↗


— Irving R. Kaufman


#ammunition #armor #cloak #collective #court

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. ↗


— Walter Kaufmann


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