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Samuel Johnson

"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."

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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."

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

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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

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

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"A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials."

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"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."

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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."

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