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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."

"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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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."

"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts."

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
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