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All Quotes Collection
"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."
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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."
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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
54
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
60
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
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"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
60
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body,
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
55
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
113
"TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done."
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"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
60
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
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"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
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"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."
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"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
45
"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
49
"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."
45
"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
55
"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
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"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."
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"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
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"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
58
"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
39
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
57
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
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