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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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