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

Henry Kissinger

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
HENRY KISSINGER

Path Road Success Yourself
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
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
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
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
HENRY KISSINGER

Man Talk Time
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
HENRY KISSINGER

Genius Security

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