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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

Henry Kissinger

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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

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