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704 Diplomat Quotes

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Wrinkles Written Heart Spirit
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all

Humor Person Value Attention
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Leaders Confront People Time
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Foolish Government Goals State
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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Law Modesty Virtue
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Economics Hope Faith Desire
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

Economist Negligent Heroes
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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent

Decision Virtue Force Eloquent
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The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
Capacity Belief Great Convenience
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth

Wonderful Majority Assailed Truth
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Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements

Man Educated Pessimist Believes
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Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding
Wealth Enemy Understanding
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War remains the decisive human failure.

War Decisive Human failure
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Money Mistress Important
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

Capitalism Exploits Socialism True
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Standard Beauty Pursuit Interesting
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We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Servants Thought Action Serve
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read

Pleasures Writing Work Read
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Wealth Advantages Case Persuasive
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Economics Useful Form Employment
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence

Wealth Cases Convey Intelligence
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Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Try Fail
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This is the last of earth! I am content.

Last Earth Content
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

Believe Men Honest Worse
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet

Warrior Son Merchant Poet
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Courage Perseverance Obstacles
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Vote Principle Alone
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Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it

Posterity Cost Generation Freedom
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We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were

Understand Embrace
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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences

Perilous Experiment Consequences
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
Experiences Past Lessons Future
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Will People Happiness Government
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The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

Abuse Power Freedom Elections
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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

Wish Time Mind Pleasure
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

Purpose Christ's Earth Light
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Elections End Slavery Begins
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It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

Discover Faults Infirmities Amendment
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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought

Gratitude Sincere Soul Thought
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

Meditate Laws Brighter Wisdom
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The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

Institution Government Parties Social
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Duty is ours, results are God's.

Duty Results God's
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Influence Human being Life Immortality
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

Temptation Opportunity God
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The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

Bible Revelation God World
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Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

Death Relation Spirit Survivors
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A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Youth Sentiments Actions Reflections
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Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong
Life Problem Mortal men Solve
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Deserve your dream.
Deserve Your Dream
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Respect Truth Morality Basis
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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Great Minds Purposes Wishes
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