A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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?
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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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.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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