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History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

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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Art Avoid Revenge
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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

History is the memory of States.

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