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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.

Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength

A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.

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