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The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

— William Pfaff Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

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The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

One cannot say that it will never happen again, or that it cannot happen.

Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

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