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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Henry Kissinger

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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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 have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success

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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