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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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“I have no country. I don’t want one. The root of all evil, the cause of every war—god and country.”
― Trust
― Trust
“An obsession with technology has spawned what is perhaps the most interesting online movement in China. In the heavily censored realm of the Chinese internet”
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
“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
“go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy. There are many ways of doing that, but none is easier than taking her name away from her.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Its ideal mode of behaviour was what in German was called Kadavergehorsam (‘corpse-like obedience’).”
― Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
― Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
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