"To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other."

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Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.38, Columbia University Press

Kenneth Waltz

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“That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.”
“It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'”
“The biggest misconception about me is perhaps that I film all the time and film everything randomly. The truth is I film very little and always when something excites me and seems to mean something for the film.”
“We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.”
“God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.”
“It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.”
“There's more to life than movies.”
“The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.”

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