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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

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself

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