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Stay calm, accept the current self, do well, and often you can do things well: ordinary people can also do extraordinary things.
The security dilemma is a fundamental feature of international politics, as states' efforts to increase their own security often decrease the security of others.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
The decay of political institutions is often a result of the inability to adapt to changing circumstances, leading to rigidity and eventual decline.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.