"An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department."

-- Walter Lippmann

#Offering Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.”
“We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.”
“No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.”
“Now I do feel like I have something to say. The book [How to Be a Bawse] is a guide on how to not just survive life but to conquer it. And it's based on my life experiences, all the people I've met, all the things I've learned from those people, being in the weird situations that I get in.”
“How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.”
“I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.”
“I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.”
“I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.”

Source : "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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