Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arra

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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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

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Future
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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 values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for Americas past success are still here to be tapped. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Patriotism
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Future
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The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side. – Peace Pilgrim

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Future

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you cant take off. – David Mitchell

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Future

Smiles form the channels of a future tear. – Lord Byron

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Future

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. – Corrie Ten Boom

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Future

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I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes! – Tom Fatjo

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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if youre rehearsing, youre working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When youre doing the play, you have all day. – Maggie Gyllenhaal

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None of us is as smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They dont know how – Elie Wiesel

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