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Diplomat Inspirational Quotes (16742)

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What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.
Tony Blair
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
James Madison
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We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
Anker Jørgensen
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
Dag Hammarskjold
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Stand firm, don't flutter!
Benjamin Franklin
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
George F. Kennan
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
Kwame Nkrumah
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.
Hillary Clinton
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As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.
R. H. Bruce Lockhart
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
James Baker
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The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.
Angelo Sodano
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There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
Paul Bremer
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Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
John Adams
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History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.
Angelo Codevilla
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The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.
Victoria Nuland
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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
John Maynard Keynes
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I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.
Hillary Clinton
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To have more, you must first be more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
Thomas Jefferson
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