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Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
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
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future

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