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

Henry Kissinger

History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security

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

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