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Diplomat Inspirational Quotes (16756)

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I am proud to stand with hardworking families all over Toledo, Ohio and America who should have the same chance that I did to share in the American dream, which should be big enough for everybody.
Hillary Clinton
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We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.
Vincent Massey
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The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
Vincent Massey
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Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.
Vincent Massey
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Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as a long Greek name for a bag of tools.
Vincent Massey
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In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!
Vincent Massey
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It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?
Vincent Massey
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Thomas More
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The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.
Roman Dmowski
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Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.
T. E. Lawrence
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Love is eternal for as long as it lasts.
Vinicius de Moraes
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Old guys can still do fun things.
George H. W. Bush
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The overall situation has now become clear the DPJ has suffered a great setback.
Katsuya Okada
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In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation . . .
James Madison
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
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Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.
Andris Piebalgs
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
Andrew Young
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
Andrew Young
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
Andrew Young
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
Andrew Young
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Andrew Young
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Andrew Young
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