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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Henry Kissinger

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 nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power 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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Learning Myself Necessary
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security

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