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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True

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