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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

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
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
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics

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