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• The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Lying, Fire, Manipulation

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• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Successful, Competition

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• Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

  Denise Morrison

  Motivational, Journey, Careers

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• We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Taken, Decision

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• The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Unique, Israel

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• Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

  Robert M. Gates

  Peace, Military, Communication

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• Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dedication, Israel, Ties

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

  Douglas Adams

  Hair, Profound, Understanding

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

  Jane Lindskold

  Strong, Enemy, Retreat

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• Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Mistake, Moon, Google

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.

  Dina Powell

  Successful, Presidential, Pillars

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• So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Practice, People, Brave

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

  Al Gore

  Years, Goal, Twenties

  "Earth in the Balance". Book by Al Gore, June, 1992.

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• But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

  Lily Collins

  Way, Fame

  "Lily Collins interview: I'm not doing this for fame" by Katie Mulloy, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Player, Vision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Mistake, Iraq

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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• I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Mistake, Patriotic

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• Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

  James A Bellanca

  Educational, Teaching, Engagement

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• I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

  Michael Hyatt

  Thinking, Challenges, Size

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• There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

  Rick Perry

  Reality, Hands, Ideas

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Perry". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2011.

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• The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

  Michael Porter

  Facts, Improvement, Consistent

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• The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.

  Rick Santorum

  Issues, Decision, President

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• Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

  Howard Schultz

  Opportunity, Europe, Creating

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

  Ron Silver

  Peace, Past, Pay The Price

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