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

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  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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  The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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  Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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  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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  The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.

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  Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

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  It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

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  Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

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  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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  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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  If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

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  Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.

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  The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

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

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  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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