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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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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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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
Henry A. Kissinger