"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."

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"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."

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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."

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"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."

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"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."

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"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."

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"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."

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