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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."

"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."
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"The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany."

"We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess."

"The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them."

"It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations."

"Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression."

"It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West."

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

"The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy."

"I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us."

"What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace."
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