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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

A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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 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
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
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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Expectation Nation Respect
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science

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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