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Who controls the money controls the world.

Henry Kissinger

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science

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