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Parent Post: Difference between a great man, and a 'hero'............
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7/12/2025, 7:00:13 AM
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''Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.'' ''A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.'' ''I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. \[In which case\], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.'' ''If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.'' Genghis Kahn had faced the loss of his father at an early age, betrayal after betrayal, from his own family, multiple times, from his best childhood friend, from his mentor, and yet managed to survive and triumph, and fought against empires with more men, wealth than his, and still managed to win victory after victory. Alexander the Great had managed to defeat an empire many times his size, with a coalition that was not exactly cohesive, plus without secure logistics that even Genghis would never face. He makes Napoleon look like a joke in comparison. Stalin had faced many life/death situations in his younger days and eventually managed to come to power even after Lenin's hostility. He knew how to play politics, better than any, to overcome even Lenin's overt hostility. He also knew how to prioritize what matters in strategic sense, over what would be tactical missteps. Most people do not know how to prioritize; they just do what they think what public want to hear, instead of what really matters.
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