"I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

John Gimlette

#Cities Quotes #Diplomats Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.”
“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
“It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.”
“Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck.”
“There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another”

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.80, Penguin UK
“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”
“The only rule is that there are no rules.”

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