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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

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership

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