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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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

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