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Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place

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