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"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."
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"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
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"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."
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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."
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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."
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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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"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
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"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."
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"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
Mistake
"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture."
Cultural
"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
Meaning
"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."
Life
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
Money
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."
Economy
"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised."
Economy
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
Economy
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