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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Henry Kissinger

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

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