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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER

Politics Reputation
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
HENRY KISSINGER

Deep Philosophy True
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
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
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,
HENRY KISSINGER

Expectation Nation Respect
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
HENRY KISSINGER

Art Fight War
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
HENRY KISSINGER

Class History Oneself
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
HENRY KISSINGER

Learning Nation Past
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
HENRY KISSINGER

Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
HENRY KISSINGER

Nation Rule Trust

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

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