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

Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War

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