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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

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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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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