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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Henry Kissinger

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

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