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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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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Class History Oneself
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
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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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression

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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