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DEAN ACHESON
American lawyer and statesman
(1893 - 1971)
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
      - [Writing]

Acheson's Rule: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
      - [Controversy]

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
      - [Endurance]

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
      - [Change]

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
      - [Negotiation]

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