A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
HENRY KISSINGERA diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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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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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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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