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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.

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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
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
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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 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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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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Genius Security

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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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