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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

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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