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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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"Living simply makes loving simple."
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"You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone."
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"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."
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"Food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection."
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"Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance."
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"An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect."
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"Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"Lots of ways to have your steak "Well done, medium rare, rare, bloody or fetch me a club"."
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"Live today as if there will be many tomorrows!"
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"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
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"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
Identity
"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
Lifestyle
"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
Lifestyle
"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."
Nation
"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."
Theory
"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."
Authority
"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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"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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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
Anger
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