"States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power."

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Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

John Mearsheimer

#Military Quotes #Two Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I always said I would have gone in to psychology, or maybe the FBI. I'm really in to and interested in humans and their minds and emotions. I think that's another reason I like songwriting. It's amazing the stories you can tell about someone, just from a little people watching”
“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.”

Source : Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

Source : "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014
“God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.”
“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
“When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.”
“A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.”

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