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History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
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

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