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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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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 you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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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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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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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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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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Statesman create ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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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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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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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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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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