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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry A. Kissinger

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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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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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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
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