29 Quotes by Dean Rusk

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    We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

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    While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

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    The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

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    Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

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    The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

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    Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

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    The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

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    Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

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