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History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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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Expectation Nation Respect
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent

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