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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’

Bill Bradley

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don’t even know that they’re leaders.
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Hate Long Love Time
We have to repair that trust … I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
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Deceit Lying Thinking
I like the rough impersonality of New York … Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
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Assumption Cities Country Like
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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Motivational Sports Success
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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Baseball Basketball Sports
Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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Command Control Giving Up War Working
A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
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Country Issues Lot People Race
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
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Done Leadership People Teeth
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
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Basketball Selfish Sports
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
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Atheism Only Practice Religious
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
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Creativity Imagination Intuition
When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.
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Better Command Defusing Peace Sovereignty Training
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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Best Realize Team Teamwork
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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Collaboration Leader Teamwork
The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain.
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Boys Country Giving
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Decision Reform Tax

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’

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