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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
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
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference

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