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

Henry Kissinger

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
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 issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play

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