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Donald Rumsfeld

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
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Evidence Existence
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.
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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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Improvement Performance President Value Wonder
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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Army War
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Goals Head Obstacle Work
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend

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