"If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony."

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Source : F. Paul Wilson (2011). “The Tomb”, p.261, Macmillan

F. Paul Wilson

#World Quotes #Diplomats Quotes #Harmony Quotes

“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.”
“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC [The Nature Conservancy] can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.”
“If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.”

Source : "On my radar: Nile Rodgers". Interview with Ellie Bothwell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2013.
“Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.”
“When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed”
“My life is one long curve, full of turning points.”
“One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was â€˜gravely disabled.â€™ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.”
“Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.”

Source : DuBose Heyward (1924). “Skylines and Horizons”

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