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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
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
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Myself People Right
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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History Powerful Teaching
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
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

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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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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