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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.

Henry Kissinger

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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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
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
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful

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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