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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.

Henry Kissinger

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
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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Art Avoid Revenge
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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 goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice

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