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> [“Two centuries ago, Napoleon warned, “Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Today China has awakened, and the world is beginning to shake. Yet many Americans are still in denial about what China’s transformation from agrarian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-allison/two-centuries-ago-napoleon-warned-let-china-sleep-when-she-wakes-she/)

[Graham Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-allison/)

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> [“To escape Thucydides’s Trap, we must be willing to think the unthinkable—and imagine the unimaginable. Avoiding Thucydides’s Trap in this case will require nothing less than bending the arc of history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-allison/to-escape-thucydides-s-trap-we-must-be-willing-to-think-the/)

[Graham Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-allison/)

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