"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."

John Foster Dulles, American Public Servant

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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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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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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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"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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"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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