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Henry Kissinger

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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
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
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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

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