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"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't."

"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."

"Plan B is nonsense. Successful people come up with plans A, B, C, D . . . all the way to Z. That's how life works. If you'renot constantly looking for and testing solutions, that's probably why you're on the hamster wheel that you're on right now."

"Divide the target in proportion to the available resources."

"He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."

"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."


"We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."


"We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources."


"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."


"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."


"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."


"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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