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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

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

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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
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 more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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

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