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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 7, 2026
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
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Thomas Pickering (1931 - )  
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956  
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
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Jules de Gaultier  
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)  
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