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"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
"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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"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
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