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"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
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"He believed that rank without power was a sham."
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"Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong."
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"Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess."
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"God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man."
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"The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!"
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"The insolence of office."
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"The system in the world want to control people and rule them for its own purposes."
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"I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions."
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"We need to stop the erosion of parental authority."
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"It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty."
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"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
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"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."
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"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
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"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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