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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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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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"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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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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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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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
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"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
Humor
"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
Justice
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Change
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
Wisdom
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
Life
"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."
Nature
"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."
Leadership
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
Humor
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
Writing
"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."
Wisdom
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