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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset

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