Patched-up diplomatic solutions designed to answer the needs of the moment rarely last, and as they unravel they can actually make things worse.
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The West as a whole in the early 1990's became obsessed with a peace dividend that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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The fightback begins now!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Cinema)
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
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I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs, because I want them, for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies. Now stop it!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Enemy)
It pays to know the enemy, not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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My father, more perceptive than many, wryly commented that by the time I was an adult there might not be an Indian Civil Service to enter. He turned out to be right. I had to settle for British politics instead.
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To me, consensus seems to be: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that need to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner'I stand for consensus'?
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