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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger

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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership

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