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History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Henry Kissinger

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
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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Experience Important World
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

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