"There has been no other place in the world from which, scholar for scholar and square foot for square foot, more and finer scholarship has emerged over these past forty years than from these surrounding walls."
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George F. Kennan, American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian. In the IAS Book 2013 p 24
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