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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
HENRY KISSINGER

Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

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