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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)?

Henry Kissinger

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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

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