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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
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| Luis Figo, Athlete (1972) |
| Ruth Handler, Businesswoman (1916) |
| Daisy Bates, Activist (1999) |
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| Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher (1995) |
| Eugene Field, Poet (1895) |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Artist (1894) |


