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For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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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Art Avoid Revenge
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 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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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

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