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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
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
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 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
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem

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