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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.

Henry Kissinger

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice

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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