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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

In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself

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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