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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust

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