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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
HENRY KISSINGER

Philosophy Power Science
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
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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
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
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
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

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