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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Joseph P. Thompson
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When you're going slow, you give us a sense that you know that we're there. A lot of people don't do that. It gets pretty scary once in a while.
— Joseph Thompson
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US
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
— E. P. Thompson
About
Balance
Be Real
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
— E. P. Thompson
Democratization
Experts
Many
I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
— E. P. Thompson
Admire
After
Attitude
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
— E. P. Thompson
Afterwards
Both
Contrived