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"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
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"Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment."

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."

"I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present."

"The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking", as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down."

"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."

"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."

"Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life."

"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""

"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."

"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."
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"When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views."

"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."

"Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life."

"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."

"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."

"Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal."
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