Dean Acheson Quotes
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
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Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.
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It's exhausting being a woman.
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a founder walks out the door, there is something spiritual that walks out the door, too.
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People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.
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Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
