"Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs."
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"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
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"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."
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"The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief."
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"I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over."
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"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
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"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas."
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"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."
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"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
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"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable."
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."
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"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."
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"Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why."
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"Leaders grow; they are not made."
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