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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.

Henry Kissinger

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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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Choice Important Reputation Worth
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success

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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