The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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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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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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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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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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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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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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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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