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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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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