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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.

Henry Kissinger

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
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 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
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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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