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"Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end."

"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."

"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself."

"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."

"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."

"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
Politics

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy."

"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."

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