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Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: Endurance Heroism Moment More

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: Absorb Civilized Concept Generation History Implies Lessons Lose Meaning Own People Preserve Problems Reader Records Relate Scholar Study Study History Them Too Very Without Would

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The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: Democratic Dictatorship Fig Hide Leaves Procedure Were

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The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: American Best Let Us Russian Russians Thing Us Want

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One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: Feels Guest Household Member Sometimes Time

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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: American Been Before Believe Best Chilly Consent Few Follow Forward He Last Lonely Long Look Pleasure Stands Where Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16th, 1904

Died: March 17th, 2005

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