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

Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security

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