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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

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
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
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
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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.
HENRY KISSINGER

Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
HENRY KISSINGER

Art Policy Possible Science

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