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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking

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