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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Henry Kissinger

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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Art Fight War
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference

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