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"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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Personal Development
"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."
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"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."
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"The quality of life depends on the power of love."
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"There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force."
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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
Leadership
"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."
Writing
"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
Education
"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."
Man
"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"
People
"Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people."
Man
"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
World
"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
People
"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."
Education
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