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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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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Art Fight War

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

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