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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Henry Kissinger

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible 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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

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