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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
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
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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