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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.

Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
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
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
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself

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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