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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time

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