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"If you develop rules, never have more than ten."
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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."

"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"

"It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers."

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."
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"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."

"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."

"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."

"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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