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"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."
Leadership
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
Vision
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
Art
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
Politics
"Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end."
Power
"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
Policy
"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
Peace
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
God
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
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