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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

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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 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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
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
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful

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