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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth 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
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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

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