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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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 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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
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
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True

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