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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

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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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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