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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science

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