The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
HENRY KISSINGEROrder always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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In short, the end justifies the means.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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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.
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