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It was clumsy and cruel and thoughtless and without consideration. Step by step, the west blundered and floundered into a dilemma they never completely comprehended and never in fact sought: from the very beginning, they argued in cliches.

— James Cameron Describing the US actions against against North Vietnam (1965)

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That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?

I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.

The simple thing is to consider the French as an erratic and brilliant people, dressed either in blue blouses and berets or trick suits and Charvet ties, who have all the gifts except that of running their country.

What a Way to Run the Tribe: Selected Articles, 1948-67 (1968)

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