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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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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Art Fight War
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True

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