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spite of their differences, however, US officers shared a particular view of the United States as a harbinger of progress and of Panama as a backward tropical place. This overarching ideology shaped their actions and ultimately affected the
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“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
― Trust
― Trust
“The shift from serving advertisers to satisfying subscribers changes everything. Now”
― Universality
― Universality
“Rulers, statesmen and nations are often advised to learn the lesson of historical experience. But what experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history. Hegel”
― The World: A Family History of Humanity
― The World: A Family History of Humanity
“Its ideal mode of behaviour was what in German was called Kadavergehorsam (‘corpse-like obedience’).”
― Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
― Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
“go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy. There are many ways of doing that, but none is easier than taking her name away from her.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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