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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

Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
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
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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
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
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

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