Henry Kissinger Quotes
I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
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Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Because we are all human beings, we are all HIV-eligible.
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics.
