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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

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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 war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important

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