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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The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.
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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 go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.
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Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
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I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
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The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
