John Foster Dulles Quotes
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
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At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
