"While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong."

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Source : "The Great Game Then and Now". Address to the Conference on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: Geopolitical and Regional Security, March 12, 1998.

Michael Mandelbaum

#Analogies Quotes #Assumption Quotes #Mislead Quotes

“Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.”
“By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.”
“The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.”
“No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

Source : Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
“There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.”
“James Brown is the reason I play guitar.”
“Art is a self-replicating force.”

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