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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

Henry Kissinger

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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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 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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset

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