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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?

Henry Kissinger

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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad 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
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel

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