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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

- Lord Darling

"Let us agree not to step on each other's feet," said the cock to the horse.

- English proverb

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

- William Hazlitt

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

- Anonymous

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

- Samuel Butler

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

- Charles de Gaulle

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

- Anonymous

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

- Dean Acheson

Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

- Wynn Catlin

If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts, with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery, and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place, and does not perchance by his lavishness disturb the monastery, but is simply content with what he finds, he shall be received for as long as he desires. If, indeed, he find fault with anything, or expose it, reasonably, and with the humility of charity, the Abbott shall discuss it prudently lest perchance God had sent him for this very thing. But, if he have been found gossipy and contumacious in the time of his sojourn as guest, not only ought he not be joined to the body of the monastery, but also, it shall be said to him, honestly, that he must depart. If he does not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him.

- Saint Benedict

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

- Henry Wotton