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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Henry Kissinger

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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

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