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

Henry Kissinger

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
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
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
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
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place

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