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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

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
HENRY KISSINGER

Intellectual Politics
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself

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