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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

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
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
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
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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Experience Important World
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
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
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security

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