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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."

"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."

"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

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

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."

"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."

"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions."
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