The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
HENRY KISSINGERThe goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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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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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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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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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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