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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

Henry Kissinger

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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
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
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
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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