It has the added advantage of being true.
HENRY KISSINGERA turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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History is the memory of States.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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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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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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