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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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It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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

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