"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Diplomacy, Eyes, Will

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

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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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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"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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"The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable."

Mitchell Reiss, American Diplomat

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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Education

"Live the life you've dreamed."

Inspirational

"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"

Time

"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing, but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."

Psychology

"Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts."

Politics

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Friendship

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Solitude

"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."

Education

"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning."

Unity

"Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

Politics