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Ray Kooyenga

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“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”
― Henry Kissinger

tags: alone, deserve, leader, leadership

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“To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

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

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

tags: history-repeating-itself

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“A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: “We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

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