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

Henry Kissinger

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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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
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
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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

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