There Will Be No Room, Here, For The Smug Myopia Which Views American Civilization As The Final Solution To All World Problems; Which Recommends Our Institutions For Universal Adoption And Turns Away With Contempt From The Serious Study Of The Institutions Of Peoples Whose Civilizations May Seem To Us To Be Materially Less Advanced.

-George F. Kennan

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There Will Be No Room, Here, For

George F. Kennan

There Will Be No Room, Here, For The Smug Myopia Which Views American Civilization As The Final Solution To All World Problems; Which Recommends Our Institutions For Universal Adoption And Turns Away With Contempt From The Serious Study Of The Institutions Of Peoples Whose Civilizations May Seem To Us To Be Materially Less Advanced.

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Civilization

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Adoption

It Is An Undeniable Privilege Of Every Man To Prove Himself Right In The Thesis That The World Is His Enemy; For If He Reiterates It Frequently Enough And Makes It The Background Of His Conduct He Is Bound Eventually To Be Right.

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Enemy

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