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Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
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
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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