“Less smoking and more reading.”
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain
23rd April 2005.
As President, 2005
“The cure to misunderstanding history is to read more, not less.”
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 1, Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics?, p. 19.
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