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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

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 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
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
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 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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place

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