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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

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
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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

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