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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.

Henry Kissinger

in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset

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