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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

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
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
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule

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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