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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
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
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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
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

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