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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Henry Kissinger

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

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