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spite of their differences, however, US officers shared a particular view of the United States as a harbinger of progress and of Panama as a backward tropical place. This overarching ideology shaped their actions and ultimately affected the
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“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
― Trust
― Trust
“The shift from serving advertisers to satisfying subscribers changes everything. Now”
― Universality
― Universality
“God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.”
― Trust
― Trust
“As in 1842, the British understood the principle of Afghan war: strike hard and then get out fast, leaving a friendly ruler. ‘It may not be very flattering to our amour propre,’ wrote Bobs, ‘but…the less the Afghans see of us the less they’ll dislike us.”
― The World: A Family History of Humanity
― The World: A Family History of Humanity
“Rulers, statesmen and nations are often advised to learn the lesson of historical experience. But what experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history. Hegel”
― The World: A Family History of Humanity
― The World: A Family History of Humanity
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