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
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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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.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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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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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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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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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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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