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

Henry Kissinger

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 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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual 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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success

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