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Henry Kissinger

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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 the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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

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