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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.


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Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.


Esther Williams
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Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.


Pierre Bayle
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.


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Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.


Michael Ende
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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Technology adds nothing to art.


Penn Jillette
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I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.


Red Adair
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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There is no diplomacy like candor.


E. V. Lucas
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.


Michael Korda
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?


Jean Giraudoux
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.


Tatyana Tolstaya
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Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.


Madeleine Albright
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
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I have nothing to do with Facebook or the Internet - I don't know how to use half of it; I think I'm better off.
Neil Flynn
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Mary Augusta Ward
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