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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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
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
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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