“History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.”

— Zbigniew Brzeziński

The New York Times, January 18, 1981 Quotation of the Day http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-227621.html?scp=28&sq=Brzezinski&st=nyt.
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Polish-American political scientist 1928–2017

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