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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
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
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 illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem

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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