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History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Henry Kissinger

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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule

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