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History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

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
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
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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Goal Oppression
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win

History is the memory of States.

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