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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.

Henry Kissinger

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World

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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