The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
~ Iain Banks
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
~ Dorothy Catherine Fontana
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
~ Franz Kafka
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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
~ Anton Chekhov
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
~ Franz Kafka
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