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"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
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"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
"There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally."
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."
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