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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a…
• Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
• Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
• Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
• The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…
• The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a…
• You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.
• A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.
• You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
• The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.
• The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…

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