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“[Warren is] betting against change. We’re betting for change. When he makes a mistake, it’s because something changes that he didn’t expect. When we make a mistake, it’s because something doesn’t change that we thought would. We could not be more different in that way.”
― Marc Andreessen

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.”
― Joan Magretta, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sabahın sahibi vardır.
Gün daima bulutta kalmaz.
Herhal ilerdedir
yaşanacak günlerin
en güzelleri...”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“Gönül neler ister, kader ona bakıp, güler.”
― Mehmed Niyazi, Çanakkale Mahşeri

“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!”
― Woody Allen

“Henry Kissinger once wrote that “the public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance,”
― Terry L. Deibel, Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft

“Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
― Maya Angelou

“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
― Henry Kissinger

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ”
― Henry Kissinger

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”
― Henry Kissinger

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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― Henry Kissinger

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem”
― Henry Kissinger

“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security”
― Henry Kissinger

“A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.”
― Henry Kissinger

“It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.”
― Henry Kissinger

“The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order

“In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.”
― Henry Kissinger, On China

“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape — to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.”
― Henry Kissinger

“A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.”
― Henry Kissinger

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality”
― Henry Kissinger, The White House Years

“Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
― Henry Kissinger

“History is the memory of States.”
― Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822

“The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of all books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking—the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics. Traditionally, another way of acquiring knowledge has been through personal conversations. The discussion and exchange of ideas has for millennia provided an emotional and psychological dimension in addition to the factual content of the information exchanged. It supplies intangibles of conviction and personality. Now the culture of texting produces a curious reluctance to engage in face-to-face interaction, especially on a one-to-one basis.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History