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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.

Henry Kissinger

Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War

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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