A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
HENRY KISSINGERBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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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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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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