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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
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

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