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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

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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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Decision Seek Victory
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
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

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