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The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

~Dean Acheson

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

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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

~Dean Acheson

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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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

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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

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

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The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

~Dean Acheson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: April 11th, 1893

Died: October 12th, 1971

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