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  • You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

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    On the fruitlessness of keeping Russian fishermen from waters that should be off limits. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (1976).
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You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it. - Dean Acheson
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