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"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."

"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."

"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

"There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally."

"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."

"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."

"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
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"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."


"I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,A luminary clock against the skyProclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.I have been one acquainted with the night."


"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."


"Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like morning-glory strings,Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,As if she played unheard the tendernessThat wrought on him beside her in the night."


"A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with."


"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."


"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second."
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