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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

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
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
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength

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