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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Henry Kissinger

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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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership

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