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"Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills"
"It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing."
"He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
"Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness."
"If you mean to profit, learn to please."
"It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture."
"When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!"
"The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself."
"War is horrible, but slavery is worse."
"I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."
"Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities."
"The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell."
"You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet."
"I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies."
"Expert knowledge is limited knowledge"
"Life is a test and this world a place of trial."
"When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist."
"Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities."
"From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing."
"No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest."