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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

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
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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 mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World

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