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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
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 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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
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

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