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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

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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science

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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