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Henry Kissinger

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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
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
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
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

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