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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

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

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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