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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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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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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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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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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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