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#1

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#2

“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#3

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: democracy, elections, government, political-science, politics-observation, politics-science, politicsics, power, responsibility

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#4

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: lies

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#5

“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: world-war-i, world-war-one

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#6

“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#7

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: politics

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#8

“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#9

“Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#10

“Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#11

“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#13

“Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: inner-conflict, otto-von-bismarck, procrastination

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#14

“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: politics, russia

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#15

“man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: control

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#16

“Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: politics

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#17

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: war

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#18

“Hounds follow those who feed them.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: dogs, pets

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#19

“الحياة أشبه بالتواجد عند طبيب الأسنان. فأنت تعتقد دائما أن الأسوأ هو الذي لا يزال في طريقه إليك، رغم أنه يكون قد انتهى بالفعل.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#20

“The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. ”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#21

“Politics ruins the character”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: general-observation

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#22

“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: anarchism, bakunin, communism, fear, marx, revo, state

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