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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

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
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

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