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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.

Henry Kissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful

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