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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation

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