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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

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
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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

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