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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.

Henry Kissinger

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference

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