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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.

Henry Kissinger

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 reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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 has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
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

If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.

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