"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Diplomacy, Peace, Nations, Want

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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?"

Thea Harrison, American Author

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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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."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Diplomacy, Relationship, America, Fear

"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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"For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts."

Randy Neugebauer, American Politician

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"The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place."

Barry Goldwater, American Politician

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"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

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

"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."

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."

"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."

"For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts."

"The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place."

"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

"10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent."

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."