342 Quotes by Henry Kissinger

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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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    Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other – it should function as a bridge between them.

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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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    I don’t have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.

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    The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written.

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    George Bernard Shaw: “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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    If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.

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