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Nile Kinnick correspondence, September-November 1942
1942-10-22: Page 02
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fine: "Remember always that you are to be a great man, not merely a successful one. Your mind and your will are capable of all things. Never try for the second best, and that means to put your immediate personal desire aside when it encounters one of the ideals of your time. Unless your identify yourself with the great principles of the world you will be a failure, because your mind is created in harmony with them, and if you use it for smaller purposes it will fail as surely as if it tried to lie or steal." Supposedly this was Alexander's mother speaking just before she died. It is a little far fetched for he was only about 10 or 12 at the time, but it is magnificent counsel in retrospect. Am now reading a book by Nicholas John Spykman, professor of international relations at Yale. It is entitled "America's Strategy in World Politics" and is a scholarly analysis of power politics in world history. Phrased in another way it is a geo-political study, with particular reference to the U.S. It is really a textbook, I suppose, but as far as I have read it is as fascinating as a storybook. I would like to have father purchase
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fine: "Remember always that you are to be a great man, not merely a successful one. Your mind and your will are capable of all things. Never try for the second best, and that means to put your immediate personal desire aside when it encounters one of the ideals of your time. Unless your identify yourself with the great principles of the world you will be a failure, because your mind is created in harmony with them, and if you use it for smaller purposes it will fail as surely as if it tried to lie or steal." Supposedly this was Alexander's mother speaking just before she died. It is a little far fetched for he was only about 10 or 12 at the time, but it is magnificent counsel in retrospect. Am now reading a book by Nicholas John Spykman, professor of international relations at Yale. It is entitled "America's Strategy in World Politics" and is a scholarly analysis of power politics in world history. Phrased in another way it is a geo-political study, with particular reference to the U.S. It is really a textbook, I suppose, but as far as I have read it is as fascinating as a storybook. I would like to have father purchase
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