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Letter "D" » diplomacy
«Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.»
«I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Diplomacy,
Machines
| Keywords:
agreed upon, alternative, diplomacy, prototype, prototypes, time machine
«There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.»
«Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
diplomacy, dry, iron, sincere, wooden
«This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
| Keywords:
admits, at any cost, campaign, campaign of, cooperation, diplomacy, pursuance, reference, reference to, statement, The Statement
«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, aims, appeals, bullets, characterized, commercial, dictates, diplomacy, humanitarian, idealistic, intercourse, legitimate, respond, sentiments, strategy, substituting, this policy
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Consequences,
Diplomacy,
Principles
| Keywords:
diplomacy, give and take, principle, take ten
«The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.»
«There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book.»
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