#diploma

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#diplomatic #truths #unpleasant #unpleasant truths #wearing

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#average #bachelor #bureau #census #degree

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#diplomats #message #our #prophets #ultimatum

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#comes #crying #diplomacy #disperse #embassy

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#divorce #itself #new #new york #virtue

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats... ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#beethoven #diplomats #freedom #life #love

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies. ↗

— Mike Simpson

#conducting #deal #diplomatic #diplomatic relations #flexibility

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#been #ceos #children #coming #desperately