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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.

Henry Kissinger

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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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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Genius Security
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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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