Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
HENRY KISSINGERA diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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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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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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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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History is the memory of States.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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