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Adversity
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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America
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
-Henry Kissinger
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Boredom
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
-Henry Kissinger
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Community
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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
-Henry Kissinger
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Conservatism
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
-Henry Kissinger
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Constitution
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Enemy, Enemies
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
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Fate & Destiny
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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Goals
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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Independence
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
-Henry Kissinger
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Leadership
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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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Legacy
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Loneliness
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The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
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Loyalty
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We are all the President's men.
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Military, the
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Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
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Moderation
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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Politics
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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
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Power
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Professionalism
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
-Henry Kissinger
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Trouble, Troubles
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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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War
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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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