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Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
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

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