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Henry Kissinger

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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 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
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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

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