Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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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.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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