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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.

Henry Kissinger

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.

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