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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

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