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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 mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War

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