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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.

Henry Kissinger

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory

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