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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.

Henry Kissinger

Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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.
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Experience Important World
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
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

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