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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem 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
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

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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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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