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.
HENRY KISSINGERThe Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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