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The person who unifies a group's imagination into a cohesive people; may be a general, poet, prophet, priest, or thinker.
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leader
The person who unifies a group's imagination into a cohesive people; may be a general, poet, prophet, priest, or thinker.
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The leader who unifies a people need not be a general; a poet, prophet, priest, or thinker can give a people a shared religion or imagination.
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"...great question. Yeah. So the answer, the obvious answer is a leader, okay? So you look at the Mongols, right? The Mongols before the..."
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"...aid? The goal, guys, is to identify the possibility of a leader emerging and make sure he does not emerge, you understand? Okay? If..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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