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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

Henry Kissinger

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
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
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

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