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"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
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"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
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"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
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"They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think."
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"All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father."

"Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship."

"We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other."

"I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies."

"I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more."

"But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp."
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