Bullets to Live By

Napoleon Bonaparte — 'A leader is a dealer in hope.'

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A leader has two important characteristics; first, he is going somewhere; second, he is able to persuade other people to go with him.

In this effort, the literary classics will ultimately be firmer and more useful guides than any social science methodology for those who have not had a personal experience with war and death. - Robert Kaplan

Only the independently wealthy have some of the freedom that, according to the self help industry, so many of us have. - Robert Kaplan

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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True suffering is the only way to see, to have illuminated to you some essential truth about your life and the human condition. The hero is a unique individual who is set apart from others by suffering, but who at the end sees his or her life as part of a larger design. - Robert Kaplan

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