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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
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

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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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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