"We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us."
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"Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism."
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"The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]"
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"It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."
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"We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender."
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"The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind."
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"An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later."
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"These are great days."
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"I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing."
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"The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'"
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"I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime."
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"Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses."
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"There's no such thing as a good tax."
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"Air power may either end war or end civilization."
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"To improve is to change."
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"The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'"
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"Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience."
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"What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?"
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"There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past."
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"How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home."
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