Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
HENRY KISSINGERThe 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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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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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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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