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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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

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