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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.

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 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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
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

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