"There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives."

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Source : "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.

George F. Kennan

#Stubborn Quotes #World Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”
“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.”
“Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.”
“No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.”
“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.”
“The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.”

Source : Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications
“We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.”
“When youâ€™re the best fighter in the world today, they donâ€™t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.”

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