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All The Evidence Of History Suggests That Man Is Indeed A Rational Animal, But With A Near Infinite Capacity For Folly. . . . He Draws Blueprints For Utopia, But Never Quite Gets It Built. In The End He Plugs Away Obstinately With The Only Building Material Really Ever At Hand--his Own Part Comic, Part Tragic, Part Cussed, But Part Glorious Nature.

...but Highly Placed Sources Within The Kennedy Administration Disagreed: "[t]he Assumption That The Strategic Nuclear Balance Mattered In Any Way Was Wrong... As Far As I Am Concerned, It Made No Difference... If My Memory Serves Me Correctly, We Had Some Five Thousand Strategic Nuclear Warheads As Against T Heir Three Hundred. Can Anyone Seriously Tell Me That Their Having Three Hundred And Forty Would Have Made Any Difference? The Military Balance Wasn't Changed. I Didn't Believe It Then, And I Don't Believe It Now..."

A Computer Does Not Substitute For Judgment Any More Than A Pencil Substitutes For Literacy. But Writing Without A Pencil Is No Particular Advantage.

Neither Conscience Nor Sanity Itself Suggests That The United States Is, Should Or Could Be The Global Gendarme.

It Was A Perfectly Beautiful Night, As Fall Nights Are In Washington. I Walked Out Of The President's Oval Office, And As I Walked Out, I Thought I Might Never Live To See Another Saturday Night.