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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice

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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