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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
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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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
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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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
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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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
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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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.
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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
Man's knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.
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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.
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based on international law.
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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
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.13
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Walter Isaacson _ Kissinger: A Biography
responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a "base." Work on the new facility was halted,"
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press or to Congressional committees. Thus the only way secrecy can be kept is to exclude from the making of the decision all those who
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