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

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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
HENRY KISSINGER

Intellectual Politics

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

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