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DIPLOMACY, n. Lying...

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying...

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

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Funny how people...

Funny how people...

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true...

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It's in the...

It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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The convention is...

The convention is...

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham...

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Illness makes a...

Illness makes a...

Illness makes a man a scoundrel.

Source: Letter to Fanny Burney, Jan 1788
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No theater could...

No theater could...

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and...

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The soul ....

The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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Michelangelo: What spirit is...

Michelangelo: What spirit is...

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and...

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Edmond Rostand: I recoil, overcome...

Edmond Rostand: I recoil, overcome...

I recoil, overcome with the glory of my rosy hue and the knowledge that I, a mere cock, have made the sun...

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Montgomery Clift: I have enough...

Montgomery Clift: I have enough...

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I...

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Prince of Wales Charles: British management doesn't...

Prince of Wales Charles: British management doesn't...

British management doesn't seem to understand the importance of the human factor.

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Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Style is the...

Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Style is the...

Style is the dress of thoughts . . .; if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much...

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Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the...

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John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the...

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Gertrude Stein: If you are...

Gertrude Stein: If you are...

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Angela Davis: The work of...

Angela Davis: The work of...

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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Benjamin Franklin: Love thy neighbor...

Benjamin Franklin: Love thy neighbor...

Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.

Source: In

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Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

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Daniel Moynihan: It is perhaps...

Daniel Moynihan: It is perhaps...

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their...

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