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“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
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“It was vital for Germany, Admiral Tirpitz urged Kaiser Wilhelm, to build a big navy, so that it would be one of the “four World Powers: Russia, England, America and Germany.”10 France, too, must be up there, warned a Monsieur Darcy, for “those who do not advance, go backwards and who goes back goes under.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“the beginning of wisdom in human as well as international affairs was knowing when to stop.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“Omnidirectional peaceful diplomacy” is all very well for the present, but how useful will it be if an overextended United States does withdraw from its Asian commitments, or finds it impossible to protect the flow of oil from Arabia to Yokohama? How”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“Notwithstanding the damage which western imperialism did to many of the societies in other parts of the world, the exports and general economic growth of these societies do appear to have benefited most when the industrialized nations were in a period of expansion. Less-developed”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
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