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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.

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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

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