Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
HENRY KISSINGER
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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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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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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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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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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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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.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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