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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.

Henry Kissinger

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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

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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