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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Henry Kissinger

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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Art Avoid Revenge
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True

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