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Who controls the money controls the world.

Henry Kissinger

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
HENRY KISSINGER

Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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.
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Art Avoid Revenge
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
HENRY KISSINGER

Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself

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