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Henry Kissinger

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
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
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem

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