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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
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Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you not only those that are and were fighting with you.
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Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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