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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

Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory

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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