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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
‘Be realistic, demand the impossible.’
Student slogan in Paris 1968, quoted in Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History, London: Allen Lane, p. 379.
‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.’
‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Lee Frost, Reference Frost1915
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