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Henry Kissinger

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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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

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