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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Art
Nothing
Diplomats
Diplomacy
Speaking
Communication
Especially
Half

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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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