"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Diplomacy, Apology, Hurt, Insult, Party

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"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

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

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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

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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."

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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Nature

"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

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"The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt, they are forbidden to believe."

Philosophy

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

Politics

"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."

Society

"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."

Self

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Knowledge

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