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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected mann... (more Vernon A. Walters quotes)
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Structural and commodity fumigation / by Vernon E. Walter, Philip J. Hamman, [and] Roger E. Gold by Vernon E Walter |
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History and the nature of man (Vernon A. Walters lectures in history) by Clare Boothe Luce |
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Collection of W.T. Walters ;: 5 [sic] Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore by William Thompson Walters |