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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry Kissinger

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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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 international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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