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"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."

"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."

"I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is."
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"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
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