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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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I feel like the fellow

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)
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There's no tragedy in life

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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When I was a small

When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
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Leadership is the art of

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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When you are in any

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
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We succeed only as we

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
👁️ 135

A sense of humor is

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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I like to believe that

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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