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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity

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