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"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
"In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid."
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
"It is easier to start a war than to end it."
"Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies."
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"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
"Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
"He thought he was walking along a dusty road that showed white in the gathering darkness of a summer night. Whence and whither it led, and why he traveled it, he did not know, though all seemed simple and natural, as is the way in dreams; for in the Land Beyond the Bed surprises cease from troubling and the judgment is at rest."
"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
"Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."
"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."
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