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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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
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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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
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
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
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

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