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The only failures are those who fail to try.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Failing
Trying
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Blunt
Objects
Political
Skills
Stupid
Use
Skilled
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We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Life
Bridges
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Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Work
Political
Way
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Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Conflict
Understanding
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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
War
Soldier
Survived
World
World War I
Comrades
World War
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Men
War
Easy
Rulers
Governments
Incite
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Adam
Descendants
Miscegenation
Products
Racial
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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Government
Fool
Suffering
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This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Games
Hockey
Leafs
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Peace
War
Clever
Giants
Grim
Precocious
Retarded
Fact
Prepare
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Peace
Choices
Clear
Extinction
Individual
Nations
Choice
However
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How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Knows
People
Understanding
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Destruction
Groups
Individual
Predatory
Today
Total
Tolerated
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Men
War
Circumstances
Danger
Distinction
Exposed
Uniforms
Second
Uniform
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
War
Conditions
Continuing
Deeper
Distress
Important
International
Poverty
Produce
Today
Tensions
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When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Cat
Hands
Preference
Sight
Touch
Brings
Gift
Indeed
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Men
Great Day
Moral
One Day
Progress
Advance
Closed
Gulf
Material
Opened
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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Confidence
Smile
Cooperation
Mutual
Self
Self Interest
Solve
Toleration
Trying
Basis
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We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Destruction
Economic
Modern Warfare
Warfare
Waste
Win Or Lose
Winning
Scale
Side
Possible
Considerable
Win Or Lose Lose Win
Fought
Gain
Lose
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
War
Discovery
Terrible
Together
Closely
Discoveries
Infinitely
Scientific
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I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Peace
Work
Canada
Country
Devotion
Given
Grateful
Work I Am People
Am
Been
Opportunities
Participate
Representative
Shown
Whose
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Adequate
Defense
Doe
Providing
Thinking
Expense
Thinks
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The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
War
Agreement
Stronger
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As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Men
Activity
Fraternity
Important
Nations
Purpose
Interests
Promote
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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Destruction
Policy
Total War
Defend
Total
Eventually
Inescapable
Instrument
Stark
We Cannot
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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Citizens
Pray
Brought
Policies
Pray For
Reject
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I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Ideals
Memorable
Nobel
Worthy
Award
Occasion
Purposes
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The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Consensus
Groups
One Day
Powerful
Life Day Will
Life Must Day
Conditioned
Include
Individuals
Unit
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I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Association
International
Meetings
Pleasure
Profit
Representatives
Secured
Way
Associations
Cordial
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As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Action
Determined
Meetings
Policy
Promotion
Remains
Achieved
Displaying
Effective
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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Ill
Millions
Time History Good
Easily
Time Peace History
Reach
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No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Design
Aggressive
Consumed
Defense
Leader
Military
Resources
Wealth
Designs
Divert
Furthermore
Likely
Thirties
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Men
War
Aftermath
Great War
Ideas
Improvement
Peculiar
Social Progress
Western
Expectation
Globe
Imperative
Material
Quarter
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Dream
Faith
Done
Important
One Day
Our Dreams
Reality
Resolve
Today
Convert
Lose
None
Realise
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Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Loyalty
Inspiration
Mean
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Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Jobs
Moral
Prime
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Technology
War
Achievement
Cold
Cold War
Destruction
Extinction
Science And Technology
Tragedy
Achievements
Period
Result
Third
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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Anxious
Cherish
Cooperation
Ideals
Mistake
Modern World
Pace
People
Political
Tragic
Scale
Change Peace World
Underestimating
Wider
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Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Past
Pride
Strong
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If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Money
Cat
Crazy
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As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
Lester B. Pearson / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Country
Wish
Years
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