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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

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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future

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