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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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
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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

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