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

Henry Kissinger

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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason

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