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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
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
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
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
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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