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  1. Mario Puzo _ The Godfather

    The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.
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  2. Jim Butcher _ Turn Coat

    You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
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  3. W.E.B. Du Bois _ The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois

    Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.
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  5. Wole Soyinka _ Climate of Fear: The Quest for

    the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.
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