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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.

Henry Kissinger

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity

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