"I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations."

-- Paul Hasluck

#Leadership Quotes #Christian Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.”
“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”
“My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.”
“A runner is real when she takes the first step.”
“Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.”

Source : Ernst Hanfstaengl (2011). “Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer”, p.178, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.”
“I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.”
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

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