If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
HENRY KISSINGERPoor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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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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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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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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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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