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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

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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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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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Argument Beginning End War
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
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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

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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