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You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.
— Kevin Shields
so Durrant stroked the area around his cloaca
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.
— John Mearsheimer
If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.
— Nora Ephron
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.
— John Mearsheimer
Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.
— John Mearsheimer
States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.
— John Mearsheimer
You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
— Carl Lewis
This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.
— John Mearsheimer
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
— Sri Aurobindo
China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.
— John Mearsheimer
The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time - - in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
— T. J. Jagodowski
A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.
— John Mearsheimer
In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.
— John Mearsheimer
Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.
— John Mearsheimer
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.
— John Mearsheimer
The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.
— John Mearsheimer
Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.
— John Mearsheimer
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
— John Mearsheimer
The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.
— John Mearsheimer
I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.
— John Mearsheimer
And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted.
— Jussi Adler-Olsen
States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.
— John Mearsheimer
By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
— Jamais Cascio
Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.
— John Mearsheimer