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Cheap booze is a false economy.

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At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached ...more

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One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometim...more

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Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All...more

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The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

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The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can e...more

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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to...more

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[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East ...more

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

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To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And...more

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You have to choose your future regrets.