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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two t

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. – Fareed Zakaria

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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. – Fareed Zakaria

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History
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Fareed Zakaria
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground. – Fareed Zakaria

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War
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Promise little and do much. – Hebrew Proverb

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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. – Mohandas Gandhi

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my fathers generation. Its a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami

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It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918

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