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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.

Henry Kissinger

Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership

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