Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
HENRY KISSINGER
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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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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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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It has the added advantage of being true.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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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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