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"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
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"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."

"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."

"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"

"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it."

"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."

"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

"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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"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."

"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."

"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."

"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."

"Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through."

"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
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