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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Henry Kissinger

in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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 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
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time

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