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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

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
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
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
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
It has the added advantage of being true.
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