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

Henry Kissinger

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
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
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
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

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