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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

Henry Kissinger

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time

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