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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.

Henry Kissinger

Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself

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