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

Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason

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