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I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.

— George F. Kennan

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Reading, in contrast to sitting before the screen, is not a purely passive exercise.

For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 37 (1981)

Although the Georgian nationalists do not like Stalin, they have every reason to be thankful to him.

World communism is like a malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

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