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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

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
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
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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
It has the added advantage of being true.
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