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"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea."
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"I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans."
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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
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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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"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
Uncertainty
"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
"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
Privacy
"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
Cynicism
"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words."
Time
"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
"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
"There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated."
Government
"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."
Diplomacy
"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
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