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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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

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