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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Henry Kissinger

History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
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
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

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