"When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage."

"Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you."

"I like to think that I had no other wealth besides my work. And I have a titanic ambition: all my life I have been th…"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fr…"

"If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the…"

"Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the w…"

"I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I do love non-fiction too, if I lay hands on any. I enjoy world…"

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"I also read English and Theaters Arts at the University and majored in Playwriting. I have a Masters in International…"