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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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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Strategy Writing

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