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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

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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive

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