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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

Henry Kissinger

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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