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"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."

"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

"This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose."

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
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