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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger

In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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 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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
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
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

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