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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

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
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
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

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