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

Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
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
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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

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