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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

Henry Kissinger

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World

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