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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. – Thomas Pickering

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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. – Carl Rowan

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