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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Henry Kissinger

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time

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