The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
HENRY KISSINGERIt 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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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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