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

Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
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
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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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