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"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
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"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."
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"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
"Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us."
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"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."
"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."
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