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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
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
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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

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