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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

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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

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