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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

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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure

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