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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

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 turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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 war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary

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