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

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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking

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