The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
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ARUNDHATI ROY He can grow into a statesman, as Reagan did. Or he can continue to be a caricature of himself.
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DANIEL J. BOORSTIN He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others
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DEAN ACHESON Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
DEAN ACHESON A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
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DEAN ACHESON We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
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DEAN ACHESON Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
DEAN ACHESON The future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e...
DEAN ACHESON We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
DEAN ACHESON Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree
DEAN ACHESON I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
DEAN ACHESON A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
DEAN ACHESON I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
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DEAN ACHESON I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say ...
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TEKOA MANNING . . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It is strange so great a statesman should
Be so sublime a poet.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANT A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist
WILL DURANT He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion....
UNKNOWN Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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EVAN TRACEY Dean went up with ads earlier than anyone else, and drew a lot of people to spend in Iowa, ... In Io...
EVAN TRACEY A requirement of success is failure.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"
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DEAN ORNISH If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then mayb...
JAMES DEAN Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
DEAN CAIN I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself a...
DEAN KOONTZ You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
DEAN MARTIN The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a sch...
DEAN SMITH I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destinati...
JIMMY DEAN Only the gentle are ever really strong.
JAMES DEAN The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.
DEAN KARNAZES