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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.

Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
HENRY KISSINGER

Alone Deserve Leadership
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
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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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Genius Security
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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

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