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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

Henry Kissinger

Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
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
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
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

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