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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?

Henry Kissinger

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 knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

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