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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

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
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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

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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