#diploma

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#diplomacy #english #french #international #international language

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers. ↗

— Solomon Short

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ↗

— Robert Frost

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White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

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We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. ↗

— Alvin Adams

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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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