A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
HENRY KISSINGERThe 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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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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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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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History is the memory of States.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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