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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Henry Kissinger

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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
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
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War

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