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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent

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