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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

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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

Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success

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