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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

Henry Kissinger

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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

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