Charles Grapski
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“Nationalist Arab countries concluded that the United States would continue to back Israel, while the Soviet Union did not. So immediately after the Suez War, Syria signed a military agreement with the Soviet Union. The Soviets began shipping planes and tanks to Syria. Their alliance survived the collapse of the Soviet Union and continues with Russia today.”
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
“The group’s lists had value, and lawyers for Ready for Hillary and the Clinton campaign would spend weeks planning how they could legally transfer all the data from the super PAC to the campaign. In”
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
“Doing philosophy is largely a matter of trying to put things together, trying to get the pieces of very large puzzles to make some sense”
― Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
― Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
“Laks, A., and C. Louguet, eds. 2002. Qu’est-ce que la philosophie présocratique? / What Is Presocratic Philosophy? Lille: Presses Universitaires de Septentrion.”
― The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
― The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
“The candidate would blame her staff for failing to contain the damage, and, privately, they would fault her for failing to take the steps necessary to do that.”
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
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