Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
HENRY KISSINGERDon’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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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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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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