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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Henry A. Kissinger

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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
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This is awful. Do it again.
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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.
Henry A. Kissinger