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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

Henry Kissinger

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.
HENRY KISSINGER

Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
HENRY KISSINGER

History Justice Peace Teaching
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power

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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