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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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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

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

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