A mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs.
~ Dean Acheson
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Ask any two managers precisely what they mean by ‘staff’, or ‘decentralization,’ or ‘budget.’ The differences in interpretation will make communication difficult. If we are to develop professional practices of management work, semantics requires first attention.
~ Louis A. Allen
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
~ Marcel Proust
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By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.
~ Marcel Proust
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society – both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.
~ Dean Acheson
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A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique combination of resources that could permit a form to survive there. Forms thus either take advantage of a niche resource space or fail.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
~ Roger Scruton
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
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