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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression 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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True

It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

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