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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.

Henry Kissinger

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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

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