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Henry Kissinger

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
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote

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