“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

As quoted in "Special Section: They Are Fated to Succeed" in TIME magazine (2 January 1978) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915860,00.html
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United States Secretary of State 1923–2023

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