Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and hist

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. – Michael Mandelbaum

Other quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Peace
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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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movies
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Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Sports
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Future
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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. – Paul Wellstone

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Future

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. – Scott Adams

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Future

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Future

Study the past, if you would divine the future. – Confucius

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Future

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I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. Thats sad. – Shawn Johnson

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sad

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go. – Joe Slovo

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communication

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell

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good

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. – Ovid

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Happiness