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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
A 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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
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
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’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War

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