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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth 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
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure

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