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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E. P. Thompson / Historian
Convinced
Process
Terminal
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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
E. P. Thompson / Historian
Firsts
Justification
Missiles
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We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.
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History
Looks
Past
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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Economy
Geneva
Voice
Voices
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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Nato
Range
Sides
Weapons
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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Decades
Liberties
Ours
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Leadership
Care
Don't Care
Position
Sooner
Forced
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At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
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History
Certain
Views
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There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
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East
Mind
West
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Balance
Metaphysical
Nuclear
Real
Be Real
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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Peace
Garden
Movement
Prisoner
Termination
Dig
Peace Movement
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The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
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Democratization
Experts
Organization
Overdue
Reading
Soviet
Views
Measures
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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Justified
Scientist
Afterwards
Contrived
Developed
Independently
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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Explanation
Alternative
Examine
Particularly
Interrupt
Invent
Placed
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This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
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Couple
Europe
Groups
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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Britain
Germany
Groups
Ruling
Thinking
Western
Western World
Politicians
Scientists
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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Attitude
Admire
Decision
Discussion
Thinking
Too Late
Effective
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The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.
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Truth
Political
Secret
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I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs
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Men
Class
Historical
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Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.
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Justice
Law
People
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