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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

Henry Kissinger

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual 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
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
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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

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