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"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
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"After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time."
Health
"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."
Politics
"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
Trust
"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him."
Life
"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
Decision-making
"Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not."
Time
"As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved."
War
"Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball."
Food
"I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front."
Confidence
"We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
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"Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does."
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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
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"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
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"I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it."
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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
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"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
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