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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

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
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
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 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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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

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