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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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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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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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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
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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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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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