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“Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.”

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

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Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

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All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready…

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I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to…

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To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong…

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A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

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A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

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I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was…

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

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As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of…

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All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

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J.D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J.D.” Dead silence. Then another crackle. “Sorry. Not interested.”…

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Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing…

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One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and…

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I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think…

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I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take…

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Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what…

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Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow…

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I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something comes up, and I overreact and blame and sulk, and it feels like I haven't made any progress at all. But it turns out I'm less of a brat than…

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[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll see newspapers survive, being printed at home... Or you’ll have a local print shop, so that rather than waiting for the newspapers to arrive by truck, which is 30 percent at least of a newspaper’s cost, you’ll go…

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Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

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American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and…

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