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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.

Henry Kissinger

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World

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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