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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.

Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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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Art Avoid Revenge
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
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
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
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

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