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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

Henry Kissinger

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
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
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

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