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Henry Kissinger

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
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
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
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset

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