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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world

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