If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the word.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet’s admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not.
~ Dean Acheson
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What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community,
~ T.S. Eliot
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One can become so self-centered, so egocentric that when the hard and difficult moments of life come, he cannot face them because he’s too centered in himself.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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