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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry Kissinger

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

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