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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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"Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself."

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."


"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."


"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."


"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."


"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."


"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."


"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."


"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."


"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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