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Power Politics Existed Before Machiavelli Was Ever Heard Of; It Will Exist Long After His Name Is Only A Faint Memory. What He Did, Like Harvey, Was To Recognize Its Existence And Subject It To Scientific Study.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

Some Of The More Fatuous Flag-waving Americans Are In Danger Of Forgetting That You Can't Extract Gratitude As You Would Extract A Tooth; That Unless Friendship Is Freely Given, It Means Nothing And Less Than Nothing.

The Russians Train; They Do Not Dare Educate.

A President Is Best Judged By The Enemies He Makes When He Has Really Hit His Stride.