Dean Acheson Quotes
'The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.'

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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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What escapes us tears us from ourselves and ruins us. I seek what cannot be sought. I am a miscarried void, the hollowest quest.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.
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I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.
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'The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.'