"Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible."

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Peter Beinart

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vegas Quotes

“In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.”
“I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.â€™ (1923)”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.”
“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
“Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.”
“Don't forget that SlideShare is indexed by Google. Great opportunity to appear in search results.”
“And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.”

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