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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Henry Kissinger

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself

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