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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

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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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Deep Philosophy True
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
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
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
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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