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"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"
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"I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave."
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"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
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"I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying."
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"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
Saying
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
Education
"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
Admiration
"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."
Life
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
Reading
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
Language
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
Challenge
"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."
Home
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
Ambiguity
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