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With Socrates, he holds on to the hope that in heaven, perhaps, "a pattern is laid up for the man who wants to see and found a city within himself on the basis of what he sees." One man, not the many; within himself, not among his fellows. Socrates may have been content to contemplate his doctrines in the ivory tower. But if Stone's history can at all be relied upon, these ideas found their way into the hands of those anxious to act upon them. The government set up benefitted the few to the detriment of the many...
...freshman here at Harvard, Greene was diving again. And she was doing it well, very well in fact. She broke the Harvard records, then rebroke them again and again. This pattern continued thoughout here first two years here...
Barak confirmed some soldiers had used a bulldozer to bury four Palestinians alive near the West Bank city of Nablus and declared: "This pattern of behavior...is totally unacceptable under the standards of the Israeli Defense Forces and any civilized norms. Whoever is found responsible for this event will be punished...
...companies that will build the new network, Soni was destined to play a significant role. Instead he is embroiled in a byzantine scandal that is paralyzing the giant phone project. According to investigators for the GSA and a Senate committee, Soni leaked secret bidding information in a mysterious pattern that may take probers months or years to untangle...
Hence, Kennedy detects a pattern repeated over and over: "Wealth is usually needed to underpin military power, and military power is usually needed to acquire and protect wealth." While worrying about their foes, states playing in the world arena must constantly maintain a delicate internal equilibrium. Armies are required for security, but they cost money. Military superiority by itself is often deceiving, since it may be weakening a state's ability to compete economically and fund future conflicts...