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Henry Kissinger

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 mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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

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