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Henry Kissinger

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
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
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
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 diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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