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Quote by Wynn Catlin
Diplomacy: The art of saying

Diplomacy: The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Wynn Catlin

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

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun-Tzu

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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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We have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison

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