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I've noticed that if you spend ten years without shooting dope, people consider you an ex-junkie, but one never is considered an 'ex-woman-beater. '

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Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9
11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

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A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

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