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Henry Kissinger

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
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play

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