"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Diplomacy, Being, Day, Nerves

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"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."

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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

Moderation

"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."

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"Everything comes if a man will only wait."

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"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay."

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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

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"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

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"Duty cannot exist without faith."

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"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."

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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

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"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

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