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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

— Henry Kissinger

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  6. For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
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Topics in this quote

  • power
  • diplomacy
  • peace
  • restraint

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