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August 9-10
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."--Michel de Montaigne; Montaigne image fromVIDEOHOW TO OPEN A BEER: Almost three minutes worth of beer-opening awesomeness....
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August 11
"The government is not interested in your conversations with your aunt, unless, of course, she is a key terrorist leader."--Andrew Liepman, a senior analyst at Rand Corp., who was a career CIA officer...
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August 12-15
"He is stoned more often than U.S. embassies around the world."--Frank Sinatra regarding Dean Martin; Martin/Sinatra image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYThe State Department's Great Leap Faithward - Judd...
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August 16
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."--François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), possibly predicting, before its time, the Facebook...
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August 17
"[W]e did not wholly trust the Iraqi security forces."--Michael Brough, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, a combat adviser in Iraq in 2011; image fromVIDEO'Propaganda' Director Slavko Martinov -...
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August 18
"Online, there’s no visa problem."--Zvi Galil, the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, expecting that, in the coming years, his school's program to offer a master’s degree...
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August 19-20
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”--Oscar Wilde; via MR; image from"Follow Under Secretary Sonenshine on Twitter!"--From "A Snapshot of Public Diplomacy in Action Archives...
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August 21-23
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."--Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ; Talleyrand image fromARTICLESRecent Items on the...
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August 24
"[I]n regards topublic diplomacy. My understanding of the art is 'say much, but say nothing.'"--Comment by CBT, in Eric Zorn, "The Weeks in Review -- Open Thread," blogs.chicagotribune.com; image...
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August 25
"How did the world turn before acronyms? I think it probably did just fine."--Cathy Davidson, "MOOC, SPOC, DOCC, Massive Online Face2Face Open . . . (Uh Oh!): Age of the Acronym," hastac.org; image...
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August 26
“Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.” Image from--Eliot A. Cohen, who directed...
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August 27
"In short, Luck's always to blame."--Jean de La Fontaine; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYThe Case for Blowing Things Up - PD News–CPD Blog, USC Center on Public Diplomacy: "Despite the allure of soft power...
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August 28-31
"We have received a DMCA complaint for your blog, John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review. An e-mail with the details of the complaint was sent to you on Aug 30, 2013, and we reset the post...
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September 1
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."--Francis Bacon; image fromNEW PUBLICATIONIntroducing our Winter 2014 Issue: Gastrodiplomacy by Public Diplomacy Magazine Editors. Image from entry, with...
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September 2
"This guy is the Director of the Center on Public Diplomacy at USC?"--Reaction of Huffington Post reader robertdoss to the article by USC Center on Public Diplomacy Director Philip Seib, "A Case for...
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September 3
"A Short Guide to the Middle East [:]Iran is backing Assad. Gulf states are against Assad! Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against General Sisi [Egypt]! But Gulf...
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September 4
"Literature is news that stays news."--Ezra Pound; image fromVIDEOUS Government - World Class Liars: Syria: Deja Vu all over againHUMORObama Assures Americans This Will Not Be Another 1456 Ottoman...
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September 5
“To hell with them. If this guy wants this war, then let him have it."--A U.S. military officer, evidently referring to President Obama's intervention plans in Syria; image fromVIDEOSee the Assads on...
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September 6
“I miss George W. Bush. ... That man knew how to sell a war."--Political satirist Stephen Colbert; cited in Bulletin News, LLC (September 5); image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYShilling for a Living: Public...
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September 7
“Hermaphroditism. Cloning. External fertilization. Self fertilization. Courtship and copulation. Fission. Fusion. Cannibalism. You name it, jellyfish [are] ‘doing it.’”; image from--Jellyfish expert...
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