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“The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans reinforced an idealist dictum that is equally true: One should always work near the limits of what is possible rather than cynically give up on any place. In this decade idealists went too far; in the previous one, it was realists who did not go far enough.”
Robert D. Kaplan
“...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory“Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.”
Dennis Norden“It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.”
Athanasius of Alexandria, The Life of St. Anthony“...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...”
M.F.K. Fisher, An Alphabet for Gourmets“Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe”
Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth“a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller”
Sam Miller, A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes“The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.”
Lewis Mumford“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
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