The absence of alternatives ...

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
 Henry A. Kissinger

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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We are all the President's men.
 Henry A. Kissinger
In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
 Henry A. Kissinger
We are not just any nation.
 Henry A. Kissinger
The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
 Henry A. Kissinger
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
 Henry A. Kissinger