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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

Henry Kissinger

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power

The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

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