No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
An attack on one is an attack on all.
Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced. . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously. . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .
This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.
I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.