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John Keegan: Diplomats


“It’s a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ”
John Keegan

 

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Answer to your conscience


There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. -Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (1902-2003)

World’s awe


The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. -Winston Churchill, politician and statesman (1874-1965)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY


Portrait of Louis de Bonald (1754-1840)

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Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man. -Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840)

Insult & Injury


I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult. -Charles Buxton, brewer, philanthropist, writer, and politician (1823-1871)

Quotes & Asides


George Bernard Shaw's Birthplace, Dublin.

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I can’t understand it. I can’t even understand the people who can understand it. – Queen Juliana

—> What’s to understand?

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. – Ferdinand Foch

—-> To acknowledge fear is to conquer fear.

Conflict Of Interest


Shashi Tharoor at the MEDEF Université d'été

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What is a conflict of interest?

Wikipedia defines a conflict of interest as outlined below:

A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other.

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