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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Henry Kissinger

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

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