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

Henry Kissinger

Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
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
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
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 Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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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