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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
HENRY KISSINGER

Experience Important World
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
HENRY KISSINGER

Book Mistake Myself

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