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Henry Kissinger

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
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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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship

A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

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