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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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
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
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
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
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory

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