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

Henry Kissinger

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
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
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
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary

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