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History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
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
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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

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