While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
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The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.Dean Rusk
Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapons would have to have support from America's allies. I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it, ... We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.
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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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I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much overrated.
Dean Rusk
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears- By listening to them.
Dean Rusk
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Dean Rusk
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