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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."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."

"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."

"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."

"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."

"In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing."

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

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force."

"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"

"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."

"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented."

"My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle."

"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity."

"We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions."

"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."

"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
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