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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

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
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
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past

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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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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