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

Henry Kissinger

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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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

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

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