"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

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"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."

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"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."

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"Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart."

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"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

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