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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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 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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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

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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