As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.

Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) German-American diplomat
Remark to reporters after first Middle East shuttle visit (Jan. 1974)

Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography, introduction, 1992

 
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