Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGERHistory knows no resting places and no plateaus
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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History is the memory of States.
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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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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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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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