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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger

Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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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Moral Right Risk Survive
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem

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