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"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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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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"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."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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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."
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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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"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."
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"We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO."
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"Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans."
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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."
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"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
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"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
People
"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."
Fun
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
Fashion
"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
Money
"Men get laid, but women get screwed."
Man
"Manners are love in a cool climate."
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"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
Health
"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."
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"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."
Storytelling
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