Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
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I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Garry Kasparov
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To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.
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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.
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We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
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I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
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I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.
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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.