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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
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No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.
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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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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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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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