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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

Henry Kissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
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
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

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