Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
HENRY KISSINGERAmerica has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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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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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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.
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