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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
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
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity

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