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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

Henry Kissinger

Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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 has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason

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