"If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it."
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"If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect."
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"Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it."
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"I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way."
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"We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow."
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"The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors."
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"Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded."
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"A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI."
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"An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow."
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"The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out."
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"Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing"
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"It doesn't really matter what party you come from. I think the people appreciate that and they know that you're working together, that you can provide the kind of leadership to bring both of the parties together, and do the kind of things that need to be done for the state."
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"America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."
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"I don't think either team can win it."
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"Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist."
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"Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions."
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"It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken."
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"Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved."
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"The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions."
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"Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time."
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