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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Henry Kissinger

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
HENRY KISSINGER

Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
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
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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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Decision Seek Victory
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

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