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"Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow."

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"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender."

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Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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William Faulkner, American Novelist

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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William Wordsworth, English Poet

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