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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstein

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Dean Acheson Quotes and Quotations

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

The future comes one day at a time.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

The future comes one day at a time.

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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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