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

Henry Kissinger

in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
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
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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

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