For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
HENRY KISSINGER
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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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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