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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger

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 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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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 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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics

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