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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

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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
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
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
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality

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