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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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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."
"Quality is better than quantity."
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"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."
"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"
"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."
"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"
"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."
"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."
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