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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.

Henry Kissinger

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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

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