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Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

Colin Powell

A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
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Choice Friendship Himself Mirror Reflection
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Allow Enough Experience Failure People Situation Young Yourself
It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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Change Discussion Friendship Ourselves Role
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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People Perspective Right Yourself
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
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Attention Experience Information Intuition Pay Yourself
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Care Element Important Leadership Oneself
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
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Development Greatness Oneself Recognition Talent
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People

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