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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.

Henry Kissinger

Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science

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