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" If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "

Henry Kissinger

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" We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it - namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants. "

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" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "

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" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

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" There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label. "

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" The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective. "

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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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" 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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" It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. "

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" Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. "

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