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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.

Henry Kissinger

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
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
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
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 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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.

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