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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
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This is awful. Do it again.
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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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