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“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
― George F. Kennan

“Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy