Henry Kissinger Quotes
Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
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Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
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Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.
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Never tire to study. And to teach to others.
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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
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A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.
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what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?
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The good that men do lives after them.
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Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
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This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.
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Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.
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I enjoy just the raw human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards. Twitter is just modern-day gladiatorial combat.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
