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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Henry Kissinger

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success 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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

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