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

Henry Kissinger

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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 issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
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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Art Fight War
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure

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