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The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.

Henry Kissinger

Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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 state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security

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