"Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war."

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Source : "Diplomacy is a Disguised War: Obama’s Diplomatic 'Sleight-of-hand'" by Peter Fay, www.globalresearch.ca. March 22, 2011.

Randolph Bourne

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“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.266, Random House
“We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.”
“You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.”

Source : "Publisher Larry Flynt". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.
“Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson and Russell Peters, [who] are unbelievably famous, but in a way they're selling out 1,000-person stadiums.”
“Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.”
“Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”
“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman whoâ€™s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we donâ€™t know where we come from â€¦ we donâ€™t know where we are.”
“One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.”

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