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“As the crisis waned during the fall of 1961, so did the last vestiges of Kissinger’s influence at the White House. In October he cleaned out his desk. Bundy sent him a letter of perfunctory thanks, which added that the White House had decided not to make a public announcement of his departure.”(Kissinger Quotes)

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“Bismarck urged that foreign policy had to be based not on sentiment but on an assessment of strength,” Kissinger wrote. That would also become one of Kissinger’s guiding principles.”

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“Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.”

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“Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.”

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“He has a second-rate mind but a first-rate intuition about people,” Kissinger once said of Rockefeller. “I have a first-rate mind but a third-rate intuition about people.”

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“If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.”

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“Kissinger once said of Israel’s Moshe Dayan that he was “a brilliant manipulator of people and yet emotionally dependent on them.”

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“Kissinger’s main course was “Principles of International Relations,” which usually drew more than two hundred undergraduates enticed by his newfound humor and charisma. He started with Napoleon, dwelled on Metternich and Bismarck, and concluded with an analysis of the current trends in arms control.”

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“Man’s knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.”

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“Only through the personal awareness and “inward conviction” that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.”

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“Reliable rule of diplomacy that you cannot win at the bargaining table something that you would be unable to win on the ground.”

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