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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.

Henry Kissinger

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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand

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