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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Henry A. Kissinger

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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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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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
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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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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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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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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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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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