A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
HENRY KISSINGERI am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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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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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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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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History is the memory of States.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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