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

Henry Kissinger

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 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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
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
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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 reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength

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