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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."
Explore more quotes by Dean Acheson
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
"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."
"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
"Negotiating 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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