Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
HENRY KISSINGERPoliticians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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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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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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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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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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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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