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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.

Henry Kissinger

It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
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
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power

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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