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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

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
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
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
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

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