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John Foster Dulles

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

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"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

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"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"

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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

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"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security."

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"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."
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"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war."
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"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
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"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good."
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"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."
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"There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction."
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"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."
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"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
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"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
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"Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong."
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