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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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 short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War

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