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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

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
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself

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