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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.

Henry Kissinger

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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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