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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

Henry Kissinger

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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War

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