Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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