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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"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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"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision."
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"The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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"A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence."
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"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."
Decision-Making
"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."
Effort
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Reflection
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
Joy
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
Criticism
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
Effort
"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."
Woman
"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story."
Home
"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."
Decision-Making
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
Love
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