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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.

Henry Kissinger

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
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

In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.

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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.

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