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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.

Henry Kissinger

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War

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