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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

Henry Kissinger

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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 art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

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