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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
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
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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Genius Security
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference

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