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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Henry Kissinger

Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking

It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

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