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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

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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

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