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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

Henry Kissinger

Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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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Deep Philosophy True
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
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
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War

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