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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 Gooderham Acheson
    On the fruitlessness of keeping Russian fishermen from waters that should be off limits. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean Acheson: The State DepartmentYears (1976).

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