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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

Henry Kissinger

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking 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
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War

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