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QUOTABLE

Two more tit-bits from Richard Pipes.

On one drawback of social life in acadaemia:
"People do not like to discuss their work for fear that, in retaliation, they will have to listen to what others are doing..." (p158)

On the bitter rivalry between the State Department and the National Security Council:
"It brought to mind a remark attributed to General Curtis LeMay, the chief of staff of the air force, during a briefing by a junior officer: 'Young man,' LeMay interrupted him, 'Stop referring to the Soviets as 'the enemy'. They are our adversary. The enemy is the navy.' " (p153)

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