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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

Henry Kissinger

The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity

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