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Quotes by Diplomat
"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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"So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others."
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"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
11
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
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"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
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"Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies."
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"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
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"Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same."
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"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."
Man,
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"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
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"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
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"Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program."
10
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
10
"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
10
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
10
"A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq."
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"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections."
10
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
10
"My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics."
10
"We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion."
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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."
10
"To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up."
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"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
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"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners."
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"Production is the only answer to inflation."
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"There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders."
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"The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him."
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