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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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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