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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
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
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom

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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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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