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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.H.l. Mencken
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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.Warren W. Wiersbe
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.Sue Monk Kidd
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I observe and remain silent.Elizabeth I
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It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.Hope Mirrlees
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.Sun Tzu
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The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is — what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when “sorry” has no meaning in action?Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.Iain Pears
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The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.Henry Kissinger
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I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.A.E. Samaan
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Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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How can you cry for others’ struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land?Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sidesLazarus Takawira
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Remember, there is no peace without peaceful exchange.Kass Morgan
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Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294Michael Benzehabe
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People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.Paul Berman
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Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.Jasper Fforde
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Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.Robert Byron
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You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.Kofi Annan
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Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.J.r.r. Tolkien
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IF you draw a line in the sand you betray the loyalty of your causeRobert Wesley Miller
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A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.Nancy Snow
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But people misunderstand warfare and think it is an end unto itself. But on the international stage, war is nothing more than another tool of diplomacy. If your country doesn’t have a credible, powerful military force capable of bringing pain, death, and destruction to an enemy, then your diplomats can’t get much done, because you simply aren’t powerful–there’s no threat of pain they can wield. That’s why the western Pacific island nation of Nauru doesn’t have a seat on the UN Security Council. Not recognizing this principle is shortsighted (no disrespect intended to the fine people of Nauru).Jamie Smith
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You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the backgroundGeorge F. Kennan
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The mentality of being the super power globally or regionally has contributed strongly to the development of very negative aspects to the political cohabitation the countries of the region than proving the capability of producing solutions that would meet the needs of the public.Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain, ' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may crossJocelyn Murray
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I think there is a substantial difference between hypocrisy and diplomacy: hypocrisy is not saying things, diplomacy is knowing how to say things.Luigina Sgarro
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The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.. And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western.COWBOY: "Gimme a shot of red-eye." S U B T I T L E: "Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait." No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years.Peter Mayle
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A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.Anonymous
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When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps when he says perhaps he means no when he says no he is no diplomat.Anonymous
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.Anonymous
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Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.Isaac Goldberg