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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

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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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Art Fight War
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time

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