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Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
— Michael Mandelbaum
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The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Tags: believe, intelligence, war, work
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Tags: football, architecture, sports, music
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Tags: misleading, useful, assumptions, wrong
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Tags: reason, single, simple, truth
The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Tags: suffer, most, america, will
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