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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.

Henry Kissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
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
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
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
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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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
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
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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Expectation Nation Respect
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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

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