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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

A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship

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