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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

Henry Kissinger

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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
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
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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom

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