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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Art Himself Leadership
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Children Death Life Tragedy
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War

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