Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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