Dean Acheson's Quote - A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect th

Quote by Dean Acheson

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect th

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

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

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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson

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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. – Danny McGoorty

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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. – Stanley J. Randall

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He had to spend his evenings bruising two fingers on a typewriter, making out reports in duplicate, triplicate, infinity, and confusion. – Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration, Montana: A State Guide Book

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie

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Random Quotes

[W]oods are filled with the music of birds, and all nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer. – Charles Lanman, “The Dying Year,” 1840

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I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can’t unplug me. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. – George Jean Nathan

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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

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