"A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live."

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Source : "The Two Planes of International Reality". Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey on March 1954. "Realities of American Foreign Policy". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 4, 1954.

George F. Kennan

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“I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of the day, the idea is that "art that does good in the world is art, and what doesn't is not. It's propaganda or something else. It's bad."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”

Source : Ellen Douglas (2012). “A Lifetime Burning”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.”
“The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through conquering the passions. (The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter) the chaste and pure region of the heart. Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be resÂponÂsible.”
“Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.”
“...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.”
“Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.”

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