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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

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 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
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset

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