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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.

Henry Kissinger

Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
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 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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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

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