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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True

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