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Henry A. Kissinger Quotes: Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
         

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.


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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.



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Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.



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Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.



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World population needs to be decreased by 50%



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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.



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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.



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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.



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