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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Henry Kissinger

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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 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 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
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

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