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“Geopolitical and demographic forces are so rooted in the unchangeable that political action often generates little but noise.”
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
― Essays on Economics and Economists
― Essays on Economics and Economists
“There are good solid reasons as to why nearly every major expansionary power of the past has been based in a temperate climate zone, and why all those that have lasted have been riverine-based.”
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
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