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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
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
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
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War

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