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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.

Henry Kissinger

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
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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Class History Oneself
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
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
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

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