"No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals"

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Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Irving Kristol

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“Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.”
“I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.”

Source : "ZZ top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.
“Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.”
“That's how you win - pitching and defense.”
“Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.”
“Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.”

Source : Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“I'll try to do anything to win a game.”
“As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.”

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