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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)

Henry Kissinger

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
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
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
HENRY KISSINGER

Lose War

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