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

Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True

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