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Henry Kissinger

Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World

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