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Henry Kissinger

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

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