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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust

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