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704 Diplomat Quotes

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Love beauty Shadow God
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech Second possession Soul World
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Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Earth Bless me Fecund Sacred
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

Soul Body Artist People
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Joy Being healthy Beauty
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Many things Child Bones Formed
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Secret Night Prayer Grows
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All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

All night Trembled Death Life
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My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

My grief Smile My son
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Lost Carrying Childhood Favorite flower
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Religiosity Remembrance Soul
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Radiance My enthusiasms Poor courtyard
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I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Faithful joy Lost Thorn Stolen
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Dusk I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles: my veins are slow oil and not wine, and I feel my life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
Dusk Heart Candles Veins
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As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability.

Young people Permission Occupy Your space
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We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality.

Shrink The future Reality
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We clearly live in an era where we have the most unequal societies of all time. The rich are becoming richer, the poor are becoming poorer.

Clearly live Societies Rich
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When injustice is perceived, young people look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of violence.

Injustice Young people Violent groups
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Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset.

Wealth Invest Reducing inequality Youth
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It is my duty to make sure that young people hold governments accountable for the implementation of the frameworks they signed up for

My duty Young people Governments Accountable
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I will always push for progressive, more inclusive and more empowered positions for young people across Africa.

Always Push Progressive Inclusive
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We must design a future that is shaped by women and girls – that realizes their rights and aspirations to a world where equality is a reality.

Must deign Women Realizes Aspirations
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…The commodity that we have to share with the world is hope.
Commodity Share World Hope
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…we need to think collectively about the responsibility of what we do to make sure there is a more equitable world, that everyone is included and that we really think about our footprint in our home.

Think Responsibility Make sure
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I think education opened up huge vista and opportunities and networks and the courage to do with those skills what you can.

Education opened Opportunities Network Courage
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You need a different skill set that looks at taking advantage of opportunities that are much more of an entrepreneurial skill that you can add as you address many of the market opportunities.

Skill set Taking advantage Entrepreneurial skill
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People matter. If people didn’t matter, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We need to put people first at the center of everything we do.

People matter Are today Center
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The only purpose of power is to serve with the courage of one’s conviction that all people in the world have rights that must be respected.

Only purpose Serve Courage Conviction
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad

Corrupt politicians Look bad
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Task Leader People Where
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Matter True Counts Perceived
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power Ultimate
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

No permanent friends Enemies Interest
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

Nice thing Celebrity Bore people Fault
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
Too ambitious Most important Care
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Absence Alternatives Mind
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
Every victory Price Admission Difficult problem
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Issues Important Voters
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Country Demands Perfection Foreign policy
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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Nations learn Past Draw Correct conclusions
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Blessed People Leaders Destiny
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Behind Slogans Intellectual vacuum
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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History is the memory of States.

History Memory
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Thank you Applause Humble
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Complexity Inhibits flexibility Crucial
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