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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.

Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
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
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
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
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
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War

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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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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