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Who controls the money controls the world.

Henry Kissinger

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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible 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
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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

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