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I’ve never thought much of Joe Nye’s writings on soft power.

— Richard Perle

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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Well, you’re going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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