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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

Henry Kissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
HENRY KISSINGER

Politics Reason
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time

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