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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.

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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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