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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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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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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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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 you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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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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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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When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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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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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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