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Henry A Kissinger Inspirational Quotes (181)

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.
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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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