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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

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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 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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play

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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