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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.

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 reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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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Expectation Nation Respect
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
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
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
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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

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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