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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
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 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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War

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