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History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

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
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
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

History is the memory of States.

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