Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
HENRY KISSINGERHistory is the memory of States.
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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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.
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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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