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Henry Kissinger

In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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 task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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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Deep Philosophy True
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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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Expectation Nation Respect
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power

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