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Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
HENRY KISSINGER

Achievement End Peace Power
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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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Strategy Writing
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
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
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
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
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play

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