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"Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs."
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"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."
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Personal Development
"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."
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Personal Development
"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
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"I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform."
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Personal Development
"Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying."
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Personal Development
"No one can help us except our own thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."
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"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
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"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
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"All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred."
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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."
President
"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."
Creativity
"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."
Woman
"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."
President
"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
Integrity
"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."
Truth
"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."
Decision-Making
"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
Want
"Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary."
Work
"Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours."
Politics
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