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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
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"When people have a controversial opinion about an event or a prominent figure, it can significantly increase conflicts of interests that can result people to be socially excluded who don't share the same perspective as them. The way people can end conflicts of interests is to negotiate their conflicting views and unite in order to establish tranquility."
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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."
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"To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform."
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"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
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"Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces."
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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness

"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Wellness

"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship

"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
Leadership

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Wisdom

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Politics

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Religion

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
Justice

"I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
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