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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Henry Kissinger

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
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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 art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule

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