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

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Books - Classics
Italo Calvino

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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Innovation
Coco Chanel

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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Books - Classics
Carl Van Doren

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Music
Elbert Hubbard

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Quotations
Samuel Johnson

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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Books - Classics
Henry Miller

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Books - Reading
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun