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"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."
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"One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge."
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."


"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields."


"I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy."
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