"When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways."

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Source : Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.4, Vintage

Robert Kagan

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“Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.”
“Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.”

Source : "Horst P Horst photography retrospective to open at V&A museum" by Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2014.
“As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.”
“I stand for what I stand on.”
“I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.”
“No band is special, no player royalty.”
“I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.”

Source : "Carey Mulligan: 'I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for a decade'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
“I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.”

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