"Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning."

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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"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."

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"Preserve the President's options. He may need them."

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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

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

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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."

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

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"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."

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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."

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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."

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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Reading is an activity of civilized beings."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Dare to read."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The greatest treasures are books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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