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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.

Henry Kissinger

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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 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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
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
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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 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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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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