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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
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
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
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 issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place

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