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George Frost Kennan
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"[One sometimes feels] a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." -
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George Frost Kennan
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"[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."
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"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian."
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