- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
- American Foreign Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.
- Obscure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020