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

Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important

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

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