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Henry Kissinger

Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
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
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science

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