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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

Henry Kissinger

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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

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