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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?

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth

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