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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True

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